Stephen Carter Quotes

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Stephen Carter

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• I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Another

• 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.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Brain

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Up
  • Balance

• I didn't even start college until I was 21.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • College
  • Start
  • Even

• When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• 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.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Wonder
  • Care
  • Exercise

• 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.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Child

• I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Hope
  • Government
  • Environment

• 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.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Die
  • Friend
  • Wife

• I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fame

• Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Money
  • Want
  • Management

• 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.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • High
  • Best
  • Need

• One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Change
  • How
  • Within

• 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!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Career
  • Want
  • Parents

• The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • People
  • Funny
  • Me

• I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Good
  • Faith

• Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Parents

• The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Life
  • Nature

• If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

  

  Bill Gates

• I want to use every second of my life, every time that I have in my life, to make me a better fighter. That's why I'm a martial artist. For me, it's more than a job - it's a way of living

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Artist
  • Jobs
  • Wrestling

• I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Done
  • Black
  • Community

• I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Done
  • Stop
  • Like

• I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • Black
  • Audience
  • Hard