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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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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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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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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That's one of the great things about Los Angeles, that people just play music, and it's all very welcoming and welcomed.
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I've gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of - certainly more than I deserve - and I've never had a public relations firm working for me.
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There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.
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When I got my headshots done, there was this woman screaming at me to blow my lips out. She kept saying, 'You want to be like Scarlett Johansson, don't you?' In the shot, my eyes are popping out; I look terrified. I realised I'd rather not get a job than go through pain to be something I'm not.
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Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
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God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?
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Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
