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.
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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.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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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.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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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.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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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.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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No man may make another free.
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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.
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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.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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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.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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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.
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People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.
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How the hell can I make my teammates better by practicing?!
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.
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I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.
