Nell Carter Quotes
I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.
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If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom and all that stuff.
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Blacks were systematically targeted to keep them off the voting roles. I think that we're a long way from saying the vote is protected by the federal government.
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I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.
