Charles de Lint Quotes
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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It's crazy that most high-end designers stop at a size 14.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.
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We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.
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A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
