Stephen Carter Quotes
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.
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The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
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Your parents only want what's best for you. They know a career in the arts usually means living paycheck to paycheck; they just want you to know that you have other options!
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When most people become president, even if you disagree with their ideology, you can still agree that they would have the competence to run something... With Trump, I do not have the confidence of that at all.
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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system.
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Of course, it is my goal to win the Ballon d'Or, but I am not going to kill myself for it.
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The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don't get it at all.
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In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
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I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
