Carolyn See Quotes
I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.
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As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
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I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.
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French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
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We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
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Today something interesting happened. I died.
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You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.
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I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.
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If you are somebody who has a disease, you are not complaining when someone starts to do work for you. That is your hope.
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I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.
