Novella Carpenter Quotes
As cities get more dense, you have people saying, "Why would you have an urban farm when you could have affordable housing on that property instead?" So there's an argument against it. Another huge thing is there's a brain drain toward growing marijuana. You know, if someone has a green thumb in an urban area, especially in places like Washington or Oregon where it's now totally legal, why wouldn't you just grow pot?
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
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The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
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I'd rather go after the people who are the guardians or what we're doing - the news people and the politicians and that sort of thing. I always feel like those should be my targets, not really entertainers. That's just my personal opinion.
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I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.
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As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
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So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.
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So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?'
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Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
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People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there gives people the impression that they have haters. It's all for attention so it looks like they are important.
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We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.
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Twice, adv. Once too often.
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As cities get more dense, you have people saying, "Why would you have an urban farm when you could have affordable housing on that property instead?" So there's an argument against it. Another huge thing is there's a brain drain toward growing marijuana. You know, if someone has a green thumb in an urban area, especially in places like Washington or Oregon where it's now totally legal, why wouldn't you just grow pot?
