Isobelle Carmody (Isobelle Jane Carmody) Quotes
Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
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It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
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Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
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Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.
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What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.
