Raymond Carver Quotes

For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the mill to put me on after I graduated. So I worked at the mill for about six months. But I hated the work and knew from the first day I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life.

Raymond Carver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 25, 1938 - August 2, 1988

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It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television.

John Barrowman

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I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.

Meryl Streep

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Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.

Steven Pressfield

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Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.

Tory Burch

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I don't think I could do a reality show, no.

Rita Ora

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When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information. In that context, silence is not concealment.

Rod Rosenstein

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It takes every ounce of my concentration and focus every night to be in character, to sing in good voice, to not fall off the platform. I use my peripheral vision more than I have ever used it in my life.

Ruthie Ann Miles

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Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in the West or America, people who are 'efficient,' who can bracket their emotions off, tend to win. But at what cost to the rest of us?

Matt Bellamy

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My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

Josh Lucas

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'Spring Awakening' was a discovery for all involved. None of us will ever have that specific sense of revelation in the same way - that is probably the thing I miss the most.

Jonathan Groff

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In North America, there aren't too many big places to go, so you find that pretty much all of the best talent in the world ends up filtering through WWE.

Dean Ambrose

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I think parents generally know what's best for their children. But I suppose it's possible to be overprotective.

Chris Van Allsburg

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