Carson McCullers Quotes
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I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Growing up it all seems so one-sidedOpinions all providedThe future pre-decidedDetached and subdividedIn the mass production zoneNowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone - Subdivisions (1982)
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My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'
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I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. I've been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That's the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.
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an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.
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A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.
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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.
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Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
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My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.
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The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.
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I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.
