Carolyn Wells Quotes
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
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I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
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With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
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I tend to like dry humor.
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I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
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I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.
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Sometimes, humor is the only way we get through the day.
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Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
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It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.
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I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!
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Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
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I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way.
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Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.
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Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.
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musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
