Carolyn Wells Quotes
'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!
Quotes to Explore
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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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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I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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I'm a normal guy.
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I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.
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Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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Your soul's mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your inner world, and there are important lessons for you to learn and share on this journey to your most magnificent self.
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I think the stock market is a very dangerous place to be at the present time. In fact, the stock market today is almost identical to where it was in October 2007 and then there was a $7 trillion crash and before that in March 2000.
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I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,Just like the ones I used to know.
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I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.
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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!
