Carol Shields Quotes
I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
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The attitude of, 'I will never self-publish,' coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.
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Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.
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Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
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We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.
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It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the keys. I'm doing action stories, so that's the way I like to do it.
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I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.
