Carrie Jones Quotes
I hang up. Actually, I smash the phone down because I take my anger out on inanimate objects. Which is better than taking it out on people, right?
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As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I remember being told very early on, 'Just say what they want to hear in the audition, and we'll figure it out later on.' So there have been a few tricky moments. I once said I could ride, when the truth is I'm terrified of horses, but I got the job!
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To survive is to win.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.
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I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.
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I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.
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The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.
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He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.
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Horror movies are hard work. Why don't we make a horror workout?
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I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the eternal return. Sometimes I think that being on tour year after year is an eternal return; you play a certain club in Copenhagen and then ten years later you are back again, traveling the same roads year after year.
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The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
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I hang up. Actually, I smash the phone down because I take my anger out on inanimate objects. Which is better than taking it out on people, right?
