Carolyn Parrish Quotes
We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
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Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
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The President is an elected king, but the fact that he is elected has proved to be of far less significance in the course of political evolution than the fact that he is pragmatically a king. … Kings have often been selected this way in European history, and the Roman Emperor was regularly chosen by election.
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We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.
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Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies.
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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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The Olympics are an event manipulated into misleading people into believing that we have entered a new, successful and harmonious period in our history. This is not true.
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I don't really sell many records.
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I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.
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What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.
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I like to collect aprons from different places I go. I first started when I was in Italy because I thought that would be really appropriate. I got a hand-stitched Italian apron from this woman in Sicily who put my name on it, and it said, 'Sicily, Italy.' So now I get one from everywhere I go.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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This is the worst outcome possible for the euro. Not only is there no clear winner, it will be difficult for either side to form a coalition and there seems to be hostility to the idea of a grand coalition. It looks as if it could drag on for weeks if not months and that uncertainty is the worst thing for markets.
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We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.
