Carly Simon Quotes
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I just want to do my best, to be as close to the top as I can, and to get the maximum out of the car.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
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Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
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Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
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I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.
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If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.
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Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.
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I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.
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My whole life, I've been telling jokes.
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I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
