Carmen Agra Deedy Quotes
Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.

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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.
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I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.
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Every time I work on something, fun comes first. Whatever it is I think if you have fun doing it, the other things will follow. Albums sales or ranking on charts aren't important.
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Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.