Caroline Shaw Quotes
Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.
Quotes to Explore
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I'm understated in my approach.
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I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.
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Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.
