Caroline Leavitt Quotes
I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.
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Earn the right to be proud and confident.
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I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.
