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.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• Of course I get hurt.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hurt
  • Get
  • Course

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Women
  • Want
  • Care

• When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

  

  T-Pain
  • Song
  • Say
  • Finish

• I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Hope
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• 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.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Me
  • Day
  • Focus

• 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.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Death
  • Energy
  • Never

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Smart
  • Emotion
  • Face

• 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.'

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Why
  • Business
  • Questions

• When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Look
  • Emotion

• We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Education
  • Place
  • Equal

• I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Want
  • Garden
  • I Can

• 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.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Sleep

• 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.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Business
  • Feeling
  • Perspective

• I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Great
  • Help
  • Think

• It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Fun
  • Day
  • One Day

• 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.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Man
  • Know
  • Human

• I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I've always found it's easier to draw comics if you know clearly in your head what you're drawing, rather than if you try and make it up as you go along.

  

  Dave Gibbons
  • Up
  • Drawing

• Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais
  • Great
  • Believe

• My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Mother

• You are literally never alone. While there are roughly 6.7 billion people on Earth, you may not feel that many of them at all care very much about your existence. But within your colon alone are living at least 1012 billion organisms, or roughly a thousand times the number of people on the planet. Stop your metabolic processes, and you stop theirs.

  

  Eliot Schrefer
  • People
  • May
  • Earth

• I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

  

  Carole King
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • She

• 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.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • Career