Carson McCullers Quotes
Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.
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I'm not good at the protocols of dating. laughs I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were 'dating'-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.
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I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.
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Tread the track of life with utmost caution. But let this not deter you from taking giant leaps towards your goals. Excessive caution may reduce your speed to move ahead in life.
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We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.
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Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
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Mexico is so close to us. No matter how long we stay here, we identify as Americans first, but we also have a place for our mother country. That is very visible in San Antonio.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.
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I know this is maybe naive, but one day I hope there will be peace in the world. Maybe one day the flowers will come back.
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Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.
