John Carpenter Quotes
I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.
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Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.
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There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.
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I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.
