Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes
I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.
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Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
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If that was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me.
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I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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So long as men hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged 'good' can justify It - there can be no peace ‘within’ a nation and no peace among nations.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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With the courage which only comes of justified self-confidence, he dared to rest his case upon its strongest point, and so avoided that appearance of weakness and uncertainty which comes of a clutter of arguments. Few lawyers are willing to do this; it is the mark of the most distinguished talent.
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'Much of what we see in the universe,' said Hugo, 'starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.'
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Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.
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Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it.
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What I do for a living is listen.
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The best Six Sigma projects begin not inside the business but outside it, focused on answering the question-how can we make the customer more competitive? What is critical to the customer’s success?... One thing we have discovered with certainty is that anything we do that makes the customer more successful inevitably results in a financial return for us.
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We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.
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It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.
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I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.
