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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When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.
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Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.
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You learn more about yourself in intimate relationships than any other endeavor. I can go do 'King and I' and sing out in front of 1,000-plus people, but trying to open up about something that's bothering me with somebody that I'm in a relationship with? That's the scariest thing.
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Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you. Indeed, it is the absence of democracy that represents the real threat to peace.
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I didn't grow up as child actor.
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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.
