Carolyn Wells Quotes
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.
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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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I now spend a good part of my day dreaming of times past, present and future. As I try to survive on 15 hours sleep a day, I have plenty of time to enjoy vivid dreams. Being completely wheel-chaired doesn't stop my mind from roaming the universe - on the contrary!
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Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.
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Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
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In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
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Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.
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In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
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You have to believe in what you're doing. In the long run, you have to feel that what you're doing, regardless of the trends, will have a lasting quality. Someday someone may pick it up and recognize that it was superior.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology.
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Society's the mother of convention.
