Blanche Quotes - Page 2

• I'm on Grace And Frankie, which is also about that time in life, I'm realizing. But I would - so I guess I am sort of in that show. But there's something about The Golden Girls and the sort of multicam set and Bea Arthur that I just want to be around those ladies all day long, and I want to be on those comfy couches and want to sit in that kitchen in those chairs in those pastels, and I want to wear Blanche's outfits and it's just really... and I want to sit outside in that weird little courtyard.

  June Diane Raphael

  Girl, Long, Grace

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Many, if not most, countries blithely expect their citizens to have carte blanche access to the U.S., "land of immigrants," as a veritable human right, but put up all manner of barriers to Americans who want to emigrate in the opposite direction.

  Lionel Shriver

  Country, Barriers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everything I've ever been a fan of, whether it's Star Wars or the New York Jets, I've also been very hard on at times. It's sort of like, I go to a Jets game, I want them to win, but the minute they fumble the ball, I go, "I f**king knew it! F**king Jets!" That's part of loving something. As long as you love it, you have carte blanche to critique it as well, of course. That's part of being a fan of anything.

  Damon Lindelof

  War, Winning, Long

  "The Leftovers: Damon Lindelof On The Guilty Remnant's Fate, Missing Characters And Much More". Interview With Eric Goldman, in.ign.com. April 23, 2017.

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• I was asked, "How did you get pictures that look like this?" It doesn't happen today because now everybody has to have permission. But what you're looking at, is the product of somebody who has been given permission to work with raw materials and not be bothered. These are good examples of having carte blanche.

  Max Vadukul

  Today, Bothered

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Nature, Real, Thinking

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• You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.

  Joe Biden

  Giving, President, Vices

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 16, 2006.

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• Love at first sight'some say misnaming Discovery of twinned helplessness Against the huge tug of procreation. But friendship at first sight? This also Catches fiercely at the surprised heart So that the cheek blanches then blushes.

  Robert Graves

  Heart, Sight, Discovery

  Robert Graves (1997). “Complete Poems”

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• WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Men, May

  Edmund Burke (2012). “Reflections on the Revolution in France”, p.158, Courier Corporation

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• Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

  Marilyn Manson

  Comedian, Get Away, Ability

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• EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us honestly, and make us proud. Our candidates fight for us every day. Blanche Lincoln failed to hold up her end of the bargain.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Fighting, Rights, Choices

  "Lincoln's First Ad: 'I Don't Answer To My Party'" by Mike Memoli, www.realclearpolitics.com.

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• The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.

  Edmund Burke

  Perseverance, Eye, Victory

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• Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Flower, Color

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.236, St. Martin's Press

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• She remembered that once, when she was a little girl, she had seen a pretty young woman with golden hair down to her knees in a long flowered dress, and had said to her, without thinking, "Are you a princess?" The girl had laughed very kindly at her and asked her what her name was. Blanche remembered going away from her, led by her mother's hand, thinking to herself that the girl really was a princess, but in disguise. And she had resolved that someday, she would dress as though she were a princess in disguise.

  Regina Doman

  Girl, Mother, Princess

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• By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

  Tom Hanks

  Thinking, Sea, Alabama

  "Captain Courageous: Tom Hanks and Capt. Richard Phillips". Interview with Katherine Heintzelman and Jennifer Rainey Marquez, parade.com. September 21, 2013.

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• Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

  Florence King

  Single, Powerful, Crazy

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• The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche. In a historic sense she never lived, but she received the breath of life from my internal spirit, and she cannot be detached from the origin, which is hers. Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by the signs of destiny, this figure arose before me in some way as the embodiment of the mortal agony of an era going totally to its ruin.

  Gertrud von Le Fort

  Destiny, Agony, Profound

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• In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

  John Cale

  Doing You, Natural, Instruments

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• Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.

  Regina Doman

  Pale Yellow, Blue, Jeans

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• We cannot allow our Republican party to be based on what Olympia Snowe and Ben Nelson or Blanche Lincoln may or may not do. What's smart about that? You do that, build a strong future on a foundation with unreliable keystones.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Strong, Smart, Party

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.

  Faith Evans

  Careers, People, Goes On

  "Faith Evans talks about her drug arrest on new single" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. April 05, 2005.

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