Caroline Leavitt Quotes
I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Of course I get hurt.
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.
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I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.
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Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
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The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.
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I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.
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A lot of these artists are out here don't stay true to why they started doing this in the first place.
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I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.
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I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock.
