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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In 'Property,' none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
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It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.
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School was very difficult. I was conscious of how I looked.
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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.
