Camryn Manheim Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
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As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.
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Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.
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Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
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Ambition without contribution is of no significance.
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The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
