Gabrielle Carteris Quotes
In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
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Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, however powerful they may be.
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For the first time in my life, I want the right to get married. I've met somebody who meets the criteria of what I've always imagined in and wanted from a partner - someone to marry and to bring children into the world with.
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Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
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In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.
