Carlisle Floyd Quotes
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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My normal look is so regular that when I'm going out or doing something, I like to be excessive. I'm very Italian - I don't like to go small.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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Become the very best in your business!
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People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'
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The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
