Majora Carter Quotes
What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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It's been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.
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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge.
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I feel the darkness inside me like a creature curled up in my chest, breathing smoke and fire. It is always there. It weighs on me. It's not contained by anything but my own skin. Sometimes it sleeps. Sometimes it doesn't.
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
