Emily Carr Quotes
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
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The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
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We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
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I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans.
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
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I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, because I struggle with that as well.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.
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I think that on the whole man would be living a more natural life if he were a vegetarian.
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Then I turned round and saw the British Union Jack under which I had been sitting and it was then that I realised that my poor country, India, did not even have a flag of her own - and it was this that triggered off my complete breakdown.
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I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
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I'm quite a good listener, and I'm good at looking after people.
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I don't go to premieres I'm not involved in.
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
