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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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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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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I imagine that whatever contribution I can make to teaching derives from having had to rethink and re-create my technique.
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I'd rather lose all my stuff than lose myself, because I've done that before, and that feels way worse.
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The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.
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When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and the thousand kids in the audience went crazy... My whole life, I've tried to at least equal that cinema anarchy. I came close with the end of 'Pink Flamingos,' but I didn't tie with it.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.
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How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial.
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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.
