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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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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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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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'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
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The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.
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One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
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The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.
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There were about seven guys that stayed in the 70s and were real patient throughout the whole day.
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We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.
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The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.
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There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.
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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.
