Carlene Carter Quotes
There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I know I look super young.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
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Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.
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I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.
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Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.
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When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.
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While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.
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I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
