Carson McCullers Quotes
You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.
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For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A. I was afraid of having to start all over again, which happened. But we got lucky.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….
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The mind passes in an instant from east to west; and all the great incorporeal things resemble these very closely in speed.
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One winter night, at half past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine
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I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
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As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
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I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.
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My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
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If I have 30 seconds to make everyone remember what I do, I better make the most of it.
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I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.
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You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
