Carrie Jones Quotes
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.
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Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.
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Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.
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Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
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Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.
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There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.
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What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for many a playwright's existence . . .. And since readings have become playwrights' main source of exposure, the nature of playwriting has changed to fit readings' needs. Investigation into what is eminently theatrical has been substituted - more and more these days - by what can simply come across and read well.
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I swear his pheromones have my freaking name written on them. They hone in and attack.
