Carey Mulligan Quotes
People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.
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A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.
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People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
