Pete Carroll Quotes
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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I'm a political conservative.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
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For most couples, the first event they plan together is their wedding.
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There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
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Your thoughts really, truly shape everything in your life that you feel and experience.
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It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.
