Carol Leifer Quotes
Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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We are all a sort of camelions, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.
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Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
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In ancient China, self-government was highly developed both in community life and in personal life. The custom of mutual protection and assistance was widespread. The organization and regulations of local self-government were clearly defined and strictly applied. Individual self-control was even more strongly emphasized.
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I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
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Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.
