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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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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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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Our board has voted on them being the vendor depending on the money coming from the state and everything.
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Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.
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The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.
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Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.
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We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.
