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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At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.
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The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.
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There will be great winds by reason of which things of the East will become things of the West; and those of the South, being involved in the course of the winds, will follow them to distant lands.
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Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.
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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.
