Carlene Carter Quotes
I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.
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Sometimes I get this gut feeling about people - maybe I sense a hidden agenda or that they care for the money more than the message. I wish that I'd listen to that feeling instead of waiting for the truth to rear its ugly head. I'm a smart girl. I'm loyal. But sometimes I'm too loyal. I'm not loyal enough to myself.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
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Growing up I didn't watch movies.
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Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
