Carlene Carter Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.
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I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.
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I love to be surrounded by nature.
