Carolyn Wells Quotes
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.
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As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
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You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
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A fixed mindset, creates a tendency to avoid challenges, to ignore useful negative feedback and leads such people to plateau early and not achieve their full potential.
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If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.
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Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
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So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.
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I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don't eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.
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I also appreciate the lasting friendships I've made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus.
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Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
