Jennifer Carpenter Quotes
At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
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It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I'm feeling like the music business is reaping what it's sown. It's going through what inevitably it was going to go through. It was a very decadent, very glamorous business that took advantage of a lot of people for a long time and didn't do things right and had a poor business model.
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There once was a time when employers could be reasonably certain that college graduates had a basic sense of the world and, as a minimum, could write a coherent business letter. That is simply no longer the case, as some academic leaders appear ready to admit.
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I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the child. 'Despicable Me' is about redefining what a family could be. It has a visual distinction and an experimental quality.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be in business or politics, like a CEO of a big corporation or a U.S. senator. There were also times I wanted to be an astronaut or a military officer. Yes, there were moments when I thought about doing this as a woman.
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At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.
