Carlene Carter Quotes
Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.
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True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
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Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.
