Carl Kasell Quotes
I can honestly say I am the luckiest man around to be able to have worked at a job I love for so many years. It's truly been a joy for me.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.
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I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.
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I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on.
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Coffee is my water now.
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I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.
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I can honestly say I am the luckiest man around to be able to have worked at a job I love for so many years. It's truly been a joy for me.
