Rae Carson Quotes
It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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There's no regrets for me.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.
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If people ask me, 'What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,' I'd say there's nothing to improve on.
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Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.
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It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.
