Caroline Buchanan Quotes
The biggest thing I've learnt is not to limit myself by the norm or what I should be doing.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
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Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
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Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
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Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
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It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
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Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.
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There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
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God cannot be compared to anything. Note this.
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Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.
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There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
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In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force; they feared that innocents would get caught in the crossfire, thereby sparking a wave of negative publicity.
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We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.
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The biggest thing I've learnt is not to limit myself by the norm or what I should be doing.
