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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No damn man kills me and lives.
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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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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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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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Fuel cells create a better automobile that's 50 percent more energy-efficient overall and sustainable from energy and safety perspectives.
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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
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There can be miracles when you believe.
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I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to just make it to pay for the rent.' And I'm like, 'Cool... That's not what I wanna do. I want as many people as possible to go to my concert.'
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I think saying 'a John Hughes movie' is just shorthand for a lot of people to say 'a coming-of-age story,' because I think, when you're of a certain age, that's what John Hughes means to you.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
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I'm a liberal arts junkie.
