Charles de Lint Quotes
'Compromise is necessary,' Max agreed, 'so long as you never give up who you are. That isn’t compromise; that’s spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.'
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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
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Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruined if I lose. I'm always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, that's something that's nice about maturing.
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I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
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'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.
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I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
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When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.
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It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.
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You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
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Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation.
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'Compromise is necessary,' Max agreed, 'so long as you never give up who you are. That isn’t compromise; that’s spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.'
