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.
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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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According to the Epilepsy Foundation of America, there are more than two million Americans with epilepsy. Half have what I have, idiopathic epilepsy, meaning there is no known cause for the seizures.
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When 'Men's Health' reached out and said, 'Will you be on the 'Today Show' and do a fitness challenge?' I said, 'OK. I'm not showing them anything they don't already know.' But I'm going to take what some would argue is a negative or not substantive and turn it into a substantive thing to hopefully do some good for people.
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We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.
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I don't know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that's what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy.
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Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
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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.
