Carolyn Mahaney Quotes
God created our emotions to work in harmony with our other two most fundamental faculties: our mind and our will.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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It is my passion to direct movies.
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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
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It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.
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I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
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My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
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No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
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I take class at the Groundlings, and my personal coach is Lesley Kahn.
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When I started creating my work for publication, I just assumed that the focus would be on the work itself and that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in who was creating the work.
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Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
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If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
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It's an acting job - acting natural.
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God created our emotions to work in harmony with our other two most fundamental faculties: our mind and our will.
