Caroline Shaw Quotes
It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. I'd be self-conscious if I did. Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
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I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.
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Too many leaders are so caught up in the momentum of work that they lose sight of the opportunity to connect with people. I discovered that the more fully present I was with other people, the more fully present they were with me, and the more productive our relationship became over time.
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It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
