Carl Gardner Quotes
Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The public decides that for you.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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Love is more than one thing.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
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I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.
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What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
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It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
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China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
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I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
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I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.
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People recognize me from everything and as soon as I think I know where they know me from, I'm always wrong.
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Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The public decides that for you.
