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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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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The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.
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No man, no woman is without their flaws.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.
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One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a camera, they respond as if it was actually happening, in real time, rather than doing it after several takes.
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I became passionate about nature filmmaking when I graduated from UCLA, and one of the things I always wanted to do was shoot really high quality film, so I got into time-lapse photography - so that means when you shoot a flower, you're shooting, like, one frame every twenty minutes, so that's basically two seconds of a film per day.
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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.
