Carrie Vaughn Quotes
A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
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There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime. It is not political. To give concessions on political status would put many people in jeopardy.
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First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
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If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.
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A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.
