Jonathan Carroll Quotes
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William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.
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The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
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I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.
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We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.
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I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.
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Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet.
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Retire? I will never retire.
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Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
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The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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We believe that failing to call a spade a spade is not scientific.
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Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!
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Fannie Mae is owned by shareholders but operates under a federal charter that exempts it from paying state or local taxes. As a result, many professional investors think the government would repay the debt that Fannie Mae had issued if the company could not, although Fannie Mae explicitly says that its bonds do not carry a federal guarantee.
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My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
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I feel like I have a bit of a Type A personality.
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Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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I might attempt Zumba. I haven't yet, but I thought it would be a lot of fun and different.
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Don’t be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero.
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The two pillars of winning the presidency are being a strong leader and being someone who understands us and our problems.
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I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.
