Maggie Carey Quotes
What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.
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I'd rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the contract signed, is trying to figure out how to screw you.
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The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.
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I love spending time with young people. I love to hear about what they think. It keeps me young. And they need role models.
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The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.
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What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.
