Jennifer Carpenter Quotes
In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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The scariest thing about receiving praise at a young age is the fear of burning out or losing it, or proving people right that you were just a novelty. Obviously, I can see mistakes in things that I've done or said and can see flaws in things I've made, but that's just part of growing.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.
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Sometimes the band can't fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I've also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either.
