Carol Loomis Quotes
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At some hotels, I feel like I have to be dressed to the nines - perfectly eccentric - to walk out the door.
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When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
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I can only focus on doing what's right.
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I have rules for everything.
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For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.
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The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.
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If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
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In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
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Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.
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I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.
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I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.
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To come back on the ice was hard, and at the same time it was kind of a healing process.
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How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!
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Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character.
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I think the job of artists is to stir things up.
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Perhaps storytellers don't need to care as much about the future as executives and investors do. After all, isn't it possible that technology will enable storytellers to connect directly to their audience without the need for anyone to share the programming decisions or the profit in between? Don't bet on it.
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The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.
