Carolyn Chute Quotes

People who work in factories or in the woods or maybe a dairy farm - for years, I've been fascinated with people like that. No pretensions. They just live their lives. I found them beautiful. They were all I seemed to be interested in writing about.

Carolyn Chute

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• I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

  

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• Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.

  

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• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

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• Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

  

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• For my life, I need to make my own choices.

  

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• Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

  

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• For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

  

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• As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

  

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• A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

  

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• I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied.

  

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• People who work in factories or in the woods or maybe a dairy farm - for years, I've been fascinated with people like that. No pretensions. They just live their lives. I found them beautiful. They were all I seemed to be interested in writing about.

  

  Carolyn Chute
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing