Carlene Carter Quotes
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.
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We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.
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Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
