Carolyn Wells Quotes
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
Carolyn Wells
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
Aaron Patzer
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
Namie Amuro
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
Karl Pilkington
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
Adam Kinzinger
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
B. B. King
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
Natalia Tena
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
Jackson Browne
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I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.
Olivia DeJonge
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The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
Frances O'Grady
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
R. D. Laing
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In order to obtain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should have to lower my eyes a little. But I lower my eyes no more. In a word, I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill.
Samuel Beckett
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..the long Russian word for creation: 'proisvedenie' - so different from its shorter counterparts in English, French and German - expresses for me the whole history and process of creation, lengthy, mysterious, infinitely complex and foreshadowed by divine predestination.
Wassily Kandinsky
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The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
Bill Mauldin
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The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.
Virginia Woolf
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
Carine Roitfeld
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Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.
Steve Allen
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History, you see, is like the interlocking wheels turning in a ticking-thing. Something unexpected happens, some sort of hiccup... the wheels are jogged... and then they set off again, beating out the time in a new pattern.
Cressida Cowell
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A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
Carolyn Wells
