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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When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
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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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I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.
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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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I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again.
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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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One of the big ways in which I felt my own writing life shaped by recovery had to do with my relationship to other people's stories. And one of the things I loved most about recovery was the way in which, in meetings and through fellowship, you are constantly kind of paying attention to lives outside of your own.
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I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
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Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
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Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.
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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.
