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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I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.
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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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Bowie's been a huge influence on me.
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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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The watchword is only one, categorical and challenging for everyone. It already flies across and lights the hearts from the Alps to the Indian Ocean: Winning! And we will win, in order to finally give a long period of peace with justice to Italy, to Europe, to the world. (From the declaration of war's announce, 10 June 1940)
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Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.
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I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.
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Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.
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I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.
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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.
