Caryl Phillips Quotes
A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.
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If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
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Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.
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The dieting wars have got to stop.
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Very much so. Things have gone well. We're going to have a relationship. We'll get done what we need this year. He's been real dedicated this summer. He'll be a captain, I don't know who will be a co-captain with him.
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There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.
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I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.
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The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.
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Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
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A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.
