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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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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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.
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What's really striking here is that a candidate who ran as the Paladin of the working class who'd deliver them picks a guy who heads a fast-food company, [Donald] Trump says he wants to bring back manufacturing.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.
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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.
