Frank Carson Quotes
America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.
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I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.
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One time I didn't leave my hotel room for four days, I was so stuck in my head. But now, with maturity and age, I've realized that winning isn't everything. It's very much about the journey, particularly in my sport. There are so many people on my team, and I've got to be conscious of them. So while winning is definitely the ultimate goal, the lessons learned when I don't win only strengthen me.
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The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
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There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
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America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million.
