Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Quotes
Love leads us into mystery where no one can say what comes next, or how, or why.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'
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I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
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I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.
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There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.
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Sure, I travel. I went to Washington to negotiate a $1 billion prepayment to Mexico on its oil revenues to help it out of its financial crisis.
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It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God's power would become known among us.
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We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.
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I’m going out to America and I’m not coming back until I’m king.
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It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
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Love leads us into mystery where no one can say what comes next, or how, or why.
