Carrie Vaughn Quotes
One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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I love football.
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The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
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I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
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It was not necessary and might even have been disadvantageous for a government to claim a direct personal commission and communion of the kind God had given some rulers in the Old Testament. A working government might need the support of the Church but not of God Himself in a voice from on high.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
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The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.
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The first fashion show I ever attended was for Ritu Beri in 1997 or 1998. I think that was the first time Ritu had designed for one of my movies 'Yeh Raastein Hain Pyaar Ke.' She had done a show in Paris, and she had done the same show in Delhi. It was very eclectic, and I love the way she combines colours and makes them flamboyant.
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One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.
