Charles de Lint Quotes
If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.
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The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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There is room for every body in America; has he any particular talent or industry? He exerts it in order to procure a livelihood, and it succeeds.
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The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
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You are my counterfeit mystery. My artificial company. My forged reality. My imaginary friend I can’t eradicate.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
