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 bought a girl roses once.
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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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I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.
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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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I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.
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We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.
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Juggling being a mom and an entertainer is a challenge I face every day.
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Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
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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.
