Will Carleton Quotes
I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.
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I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
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Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
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It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.
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However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
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Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
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I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.
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Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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There's no reason why fiscal responsibility is a Democrat or a Republican point of view. It ought to be all of our points of view.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
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I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.
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I love doing theater. That's where my home is.
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To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax, By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it.
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I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.
