Nicholas G. Carr Quotes
I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.
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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
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Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.
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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
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There's a cat in the window, of the house of my lover.Well she sleeps there alone now, or perhaps with another.Oh I try no to think about that, I try not to think at all!
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Trying to make something as tricky as 'Room' really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.
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I love going to movies by myself.
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My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.
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I never worry about fat people worrying about thin people, because slender people bury the dead.
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Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.
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If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.
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It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.
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People - Hollywood doesn't talk about how bad cigarette smells when it smells like they wake up in bed with somebody who has been smoking the night before.
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Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.
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I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.
