Carmen Agra Deedy Quotes
Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.
Quotes to Explore
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes.
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I realized early on I was not an actor. And it was a great thing to have that realization. To see actors and see what that talent is... it wasn't me.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.
