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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The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
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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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It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.
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I will do nothing to superinduce sleep by putting myself at ease, or making myself more comfortable; if, however, in spite of my resistance I yield to my infirmity, then I deserve to be laughed at, and accept as punishment the mortification I feel.
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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.
