Jennifer Carpenter Quotes
I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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In Mumbai, you have to act in real life, too.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.
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'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
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When union membership goes down, so do wages.
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When I see a film, I'll remember that there was a time when it wasn't working, and there was some pain and angst in order to get it to work.
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Sometimes true girl power means accepting that we are actually vulnerable and even powerless - then figuring out how to adapt and have our needs met in other ways.
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I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas.
