Carol Plum-Ucci Quotes
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' is where I got the title 'Momentary Masters.'
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I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.
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As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
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I think Tunisia has a specific place in the Arab world and in Africa because it is a tiny Muslim country, but it's very open minded. It's the first country to start the Arab Spring, for example.
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I actually wanted to be a tennis player.
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I've been watching RFD-TV for a few years. As a person who lives mostly in the country, I appreciate a network that shows the many facets of rural life.
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I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
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Music and fashion combined make such a lethal weapon in my opinion.
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I'm not really very ambitious.
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I went to see 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' and J.J. Abrams, who's a friend of mine, made this film, and I went to see it at the premiere. Believe it or not, I was really blown away by the comic timing of it.
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When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to.
