Carmit Bachar (Carmit Maile Bachar) Quotes
A lot of artists do music that never sees the light of day, and I know fans wanna hear it, but – sometimes – we get very selective or labels get selective about what they put out, but, nowadays, everything is digital with social media and people just wanna hear what you’re up to, what you’re doing.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.
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Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.
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Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.
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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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My father is my hero. No matter what, I'll always forgive him.
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I really like England. I like the lifestyle and the country. The history. The culture, which London is full of. The country pursuits.
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I love challenges.
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Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.
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My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'
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The reason there's not a dictatorship in Chile and that there's a democracy in South Africa and Portugal today - and that Haiti has a nascent democracy - is that the world community as a whole felt outraged. This is the reason Milosevic sits in a jail in The Hague. It's because the world has said, 'Enough.'
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I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
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We are African in origin and American in birth.
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I want people to be able to give their voice.
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I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.
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A lot of artists do music that never sees the light of day, and I know fans wanna hear it, but – sometimes – we get very selective or labels get selective about what they put out, but, nowadays, everything is digital with social media and people just wanna hear what you’re up to, what you’re doing.
