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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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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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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Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.
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I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.
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It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
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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.
