Carol Windley Quotes
It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.
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Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
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I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
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The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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I once called Carter a chicken fried McGovern and I take that back because I've come to respect McGovern.
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I'm just a tough old woman.
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The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.
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It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.
