Carlene Carter Quotes
I'd had three husbands by 23. The second was a songwriter who couldn't handle the fact the little lady was doing better than him.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.
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I am often in contact with the hareidi public and politicians.
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My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
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I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
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Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.
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I'd had three husbands by 23. The second was a songwriter who couldn't handle the fact the little lady was doing better than him.
