Caroline Shaw Quotes
I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.
Quotes to Explore
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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You need the willingness to fail all the time.
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Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
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As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.
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I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.
