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'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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If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.
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My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.
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If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.
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My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.
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Friends never cheat on each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no secrets. Friends glory in each other's successes and are downcast by the failures. Friends minister to each other, nurse each other. Friends give to each other, worry about each other, stand always ready to help. Perfect friendship is rarely achieved, but at its height it is an ecstasy.
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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!
