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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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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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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I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.
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Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.
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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?
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Girl, you don't know what you're puttin' through. It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you.
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I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors. I tried to create a Hitsville on the West Coast.
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I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.
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Everybody who plays me plays me so hard because they always want to beat me.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
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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.
