Carolina Kostner Quotes
It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.
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The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.
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Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
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I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.
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Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.
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I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
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My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
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Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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'I don’t have to be a gentleman,' said Balzac. 'I am an artist.'
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American exceptionalism is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.
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People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.'
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David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.
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When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.
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Everyone has to do their job. Everyone has to buy into it and believe in what we're trying to do regardless of who's playing and who's not.
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Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The wheels of the steamship turned as swiftly as they do now, but as silent and unsubstantial as the motions of the inventor's thought; and in the noiseless loom of his meditation were woven the sinews of the printing-press, whose thunder shakes the world.
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It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.
