Nell Carter Quotes
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
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I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.
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I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.
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If you've got people around you that are like, 'Oh, you're so good,' this and that, it becomes unhealthy. My friends are like, 'You look like a doofus.' I'm like, 'Thank you. Thank you for that.' It keeps me grounded.
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I personally like to do independent films.
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Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.
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I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.
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Our sages have taught us to learn one thing; `As in the Self, so in the Universe.' It is not possible to scan the universe as it is to scan the self. Know the self and you know the universe.
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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We came to a side road, and off the side of the side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we decided to throw ours down.
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
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There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
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Weep for me. Bear my pain. Take my come. For I can give you nothing else.
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I am sure that some day the Czechs will see that what we did was to save them for a happier future. And I sincerely believe that what we have at last opened the way to that general appeasement which alone can save the world from chaos.
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Most performers don't get a chance to sing in Los Angeles.
