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 dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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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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I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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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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People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.
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Death is an engineering problem.
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A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.
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The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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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.
