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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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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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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The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica.
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Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.
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For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There's no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents.
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I need, absolutely, to be alone.
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Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.
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We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.
