Carson McCullers Quotes
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
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This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
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When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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I really love Tom Hardy. He makes really interesting choices.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.
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The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
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My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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What's more American than violence?' Hayduke wanted to know. 'Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.
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I voted numerous times when I was a Senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in.
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We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
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Our culture is a very diverse one, and I think now it is incredibly dangerous and very wrong to persecute Muslims and say there is something wrong with being a Muslim.
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I don't know where I fit in the spectrum of rap yet.
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As the flashbulbs burst she holds a smile Like someone would hold a crying child Soon everybody will ask what became of you Your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do.
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[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
