Carolyn Chute Quotes
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
Feist -
I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
Wale -
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan -
Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
Rachel Bloom -
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln -
Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
Larry Hagman
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
Joanne Rowling -
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
Caitlin Flanagan -
I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
Tavi Gevinson -
I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
Taron Egerton -
No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston -
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Wendell Berry
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
Ian Lustick -
OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
Patricia Velasquez -
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
Oscar Nunez -
There are a thousand ways to play any role.
Val Kilmer -
I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
Carla Hall -
I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
Warren Spector
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I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'
Lynn Nottage -
What I learned from being around great icons like Calvin Klein is that the great fashion trendsetters don't change their look every season. They have a look, and they update maybe a piece per season.
Elizabeth Rogers -
I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.
John Sexton -
Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.
January Jones -
I would like to become champion, but I'm realistic about it.
David Leslie -
I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.
Carolyn Chute