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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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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I don't think of cartoons or comics as being for kids.
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Bloomberg TVThe one thing I think is likely to happen under either candidate is massive fiscal stimulus. You have so many voters in Western Europe and North America who've had no real income growth for over 10 years, and they are, in the words of Howard Beale, "Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore."
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The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.
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Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.
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Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
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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.
