Carey Mulligan Quotes
The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
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I tend to make my most important decisions by following my instincts rather than any straightforward logic.
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Music fathoms the sky.
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I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.
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If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
