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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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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After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.
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Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.
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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.
