Carmen Agra Deedy Quotes

If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.

Carmen Agra Deedy

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LoveYouWillNeverBankTell

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

Joan Halifax

MeSaidFirstPragmaticPractical

When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.

John Berger

ArtPeopleMeAliveImportantLived

My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.

Amity Gaige

DayWritingBetterPhilosophyTry

Believe it or not, some Western analysts in the 1930s insisted that Stalin was a 'moderate,' controlled by extremists like the secret police chief Nikolai Yezhov.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

PoliceBelieveSecret1930sChief

Practically everything I've been offered didn't require much beyond looking like me.

Roger Moore

MeLookingBeyondEverythingBeen

When you score, you are a hero.

Romelu Lukaku

HeroYouScore

I usually like to hide my vocals behind the music. I don't like to hide them consciously, but I have a tendency to prefer the vocal at the same level as everything else and put lots of reverb on it.

Julia Holter

MusicHideSameEverythingLevel

I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.

Joyce Carol Oates

PerspectiveStoryPresentLiterature

The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - imagined it could impose a government on that country that would provide a buffer against China and stop the supposedly rolling dominos of Communism.

Jay Parini

BestGovernmentCommunismStopChina

Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.

Jason Alexander

BestPeopleComedyThemselvesWorks

The tourism ministry may not have been the greatest portfolio, but no one can say that 'Chiranjeevi left without doing anything'. I have left my mark, as promised.

Chiranjeevi

DoingSayWithoutPortfolioAnything

What makes a good villain is someone who doesn't just challenge the hero but comes organically out of that character's history and circumstances.

Christopher Priest

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