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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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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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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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.
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Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.
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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.
