Carre Otis Quotes

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

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• I like films to be complete in their written form.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Like
  • Form
  • Complete

• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Liberal

• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Like
  • Now
  • Legs

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Rich

• For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Daily
  • Preparation
  • Bread

• Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Past

• You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Mind
  • You
  • Repetition

• My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Inspiration
  • Win
  • Dresses

• Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Time
  • Me

• All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Knowledge
  • Human
  • Form

• If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Long
  • Me
  • Process

• There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Computers
  • Unpredictable

• The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • Government
  • Rights

• Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • English
  • Independent

• Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Hand
  • Need
  • Dignity

• I want to shape the TV screen canvas

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Canvas

• If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Family
  • Like

• Usually on 'Yo Gabba Gabba,' we eat healthy and organic. We don't play.

  

  Marcel Theo Hall

• In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • American
  • Mother
  • Television

• I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Friend
  • Day

• My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

  

  Carre Otis
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Friend