Carolyn Chute Quotes
It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years.
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The road to death is a long march beset with all evils, and the heart fails little by little at each new terror, the bones rebel at each step, the mind sets up its own bitter resistance and to what end? The barriers sink one by one, and no covering of the eyes shuts out the landscape of disaster, nor the sight of crimes committed there.
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The girls from my hometown are so over me.
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I think it's really important to follow your intuition and gut, and try not to do things just for the sake of pleasing other people.
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It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.
