Carly Aquilino Quotes
I embrace my weirdness and the things I maybe didn't used to love about myself. Those are things that make me different.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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Think and grow rich.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who's trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he's gotta do tomorrow... I give them a little bit of an escape.
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People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
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I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.
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My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.
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Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.
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I embrace my weirdness and the things I maybe didn't used to love about myself. Those are things that make me different.
