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!
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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 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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I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
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I play on a soccer team.
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To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.
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We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.
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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!
