Jennifer Carpenter Quotes

I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.

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• Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Interesting
  • Taken
  • Regret

• Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Girl
  • Smart
  • Bookish

• Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Myself
  • Moving
  • Race

• Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Work
  • Women
  • Everything

• Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Think
  • Never
  • Stability

• To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Depressing

• The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Strong

• Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Art
  • Truth

• You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Business
  • Mistakes
  • Run

• I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Never
  • Easy
  • Broke

• I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'

  

  Wendy Cope
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Courage

• I am working again on my painting 'Moscow' 'Moscow I' ('Mockba I'), 1916. It is slowly taking shape in my imagination. And what was in the realm of wishing is now assuming real forms. What I have been lacking with this idea was depth and richness of sound, very earnest, complex, and easy at the same time.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • Real
  • Imagination

• Michelangelo, revealed me to myself, revealed to me the truth of forms. I went to Florence to find what I possessed in Paris and elsewhere, but it is he who taught me this.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Truth
  • Paris

• For the triangle to really work, everybody needs to be on the same page and know how to play it.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Work

• We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • People
  • Funny

• Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

  

  Euclid
  • Road
  • Geometry
  • Sire

• Kein Drang nach Erkenntniß und Einsicht, um ihrer selbst Willen, belebt sein des Philisters Daseyn, auch keiner nach eigentlich ästhetischen Genüssen, als welcher dem ersteren durchaus verwandt ist. Was dennoch von Genüssen solcher Art etwan Mode, oder Auktorität, ihm aufdringt, wird er als eine Art Zwangsarbeit möglichst kurz abthun.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Art

• If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of Thrones,' it's nothing. But it is shocking because it's so real and grounded. The characters could live next door to you - they're not in a remote fantasy world.

  

  James Norton
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Country
  • Progress
  • Crime

• I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter