Dixie Carter Quotes

It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.

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• I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Now

• A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • True
  • Hope
  • Leader

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Alone

• They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

  

  Jack Cade
  • May
  • True
  • Pleasure

• This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Interesting
  • Reading
  • Language

• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Life
  • Action
  • Spiritual

• Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Ingenuity
  • Castro

• Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Moment
  • Page
  • Prepare

• We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Places
  • Sand

• I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Opportunity
  • Luck
  • Preparation

• People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Think
  • Care

• If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Pop

• I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • History

• All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Nature
  • Fantasy
  • Cartoon

• Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don't want to do math!

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Long
  • Children
  • Heart

• I'm not a minority: I'm a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas

• Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows.

  

  Robert Frost
  • God
  • Meant

• If anything, I see myself as a witness. I'd also be pleased, if you'd call me an interpreter. I try to hear and see the message of a place and pass it on, into that other language, the universal one of images.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Trying
  • Language

• A concept is stronger than a fact.

  

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.

  

  Dixie Carter
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