Charles de Lint Quotes
'You’re confusing me.''But not deliberately so,' Coyote says. 'Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.'
Quotes to Explore
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.
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I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.
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The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.
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You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.
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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.
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It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantité negligeable.
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Every day is a learning day.
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I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.
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I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?
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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.
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Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.
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'You’re confusing me.''But not deliberately so,' Coyote says. 'Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.'
