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.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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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.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
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Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
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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.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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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?'
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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.
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Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
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The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.
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You have to be able to laugh at yourself. That's what I tell Asian people all the time.
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I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.
