Caryl Rivers Quotes
I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.
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When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.
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The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
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Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
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I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.
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I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.
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Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.
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Chaos can be incredibly creative.
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Someone once described me as the Zelig of comedy, and I think I know what he means.
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There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.
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As scientists you must keep your minds open. There is no use having blind faith in Me, in Sahaja Yoga, in anything because blindness will never give you reality. But you should be open like scientists are and whatever hypothesis I am putting before you, you have to feel it on your central nervous system.
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I wanted to get better at writing, so I knew I needed to move to Nashville.
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I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
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I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.
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I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.
