Stephen Carter Quotes
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
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My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
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Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.
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I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.
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I always wanted to be an actor.
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The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
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Woo ah, mercy mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no.Where did all the blue skies go?
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I rot on the wall, my ownDorian Gray.
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Honestly, music is an expression, and if you will be that voice for these girls, there are some people that feel this. This is universal.
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The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
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Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
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I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, 'You're wrong' I say, 'What can you expect of an ass?'
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All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about.
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I just go and play hard. That's who I am.
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I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
