Carol Orsborn Quotes
Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
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I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
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My life was pretty rough.
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I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.
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The way that I work as an actress, I always prefer to read the whole story and tell the whole story and feel what the whole story's going to be, the journey for the audience and how it ebbs and flows, the highs and the lows.
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Admit it, it is your youth that you regret, more even than your crime; it is my youth you hate, even more than my innocence.
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When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.
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It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.
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I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.
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Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.
