Dixie Carter Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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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.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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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.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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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.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
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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.
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If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.
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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.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.
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Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
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Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.
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Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, and then marooning them there. No one else conjures the phantasmagoric and shifting morality of dreams - that fascinating and frightening aspect of having something that seems to represent good become evil - in the way this master Japanese animator does.
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It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
