Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes
A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
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If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
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I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.
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My mother did not have a toaster oven and would toast bread in the oven, which I thought was stupid. They didn't do cars and electricity, that kind of stuff.
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I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
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In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.
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A lot of the stuff that I've done has been more drama and less comedy. I've had some opportunities to do some comedy, and I've often wanted to do that because it fits with me very comfortably because I talk too much, and I'm always saying the wrong thing all the time.
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A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy.
