Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.
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When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
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London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.
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Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
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The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
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Cary Grant would arrive on the set and everybody's morale immediately lifted. The crew were crazy about him and so was I. But, curiously, I never felt the male-female chemistry that you sometimes experience on a set. I could have been talking to my best girl-friend.
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I don't think I need to experiment with anything like carrom ball or so. I have my core strengths which is the off-break and the doosra. It has given me results in the last 15 years and no one can take away my 700 plus international wickets from me.
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Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
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I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds..
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When I'm at our house in France I totally cut myself off from the rest of the world. I never have to listen to phones ringing and that's because - and Vanessa would confirm this - phones are banned from the house. We have a beautiful life and I feel that spending time in France has just calmed me down and made me stop worrying about things which aren't really important.
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I know what not being able to pay your bills feels like real well... I know that way better than a room full of beautiful people and Tony awards and Grammy awards.
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Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.
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I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.
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I'm a liberal arts junkie.
