Carl Everett Quotes
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.
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Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.
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Republicans will criticize whatever President Obama does because that is what they do.
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'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
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The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now by people who think that the world and their duties in it are clear and simple. They are certain that they know what - who - created the universe and what this creator wants them to do to make our little speck in the universe perfect, even if extreme measures - even violence - are required.
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I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.
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Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.
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I think we're going to surprise a lot of people.
