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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I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
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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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All women have insecurities and bad times. What counts is how you overcome them.
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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 hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.
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When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; 'you should really consider this'.
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I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens presenting new work, we have Yeats and Shakespeare presenting new work. It's that level.
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I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
