Sean M. Carroll Quotes
Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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I'm just a human being. I'm from the projects, too.
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
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I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.
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You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.
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We're all going to make mistakes; they're inevitable. It's what you do after these mistakes that matters.
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Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.
