Carrie Jones Quotes
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
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You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.
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Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.
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A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather, for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God.
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Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.
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When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.
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Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.
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I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!
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I'm not one to blame anyone else for anything. And I don't think anyone else should either.
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I stopped drinking a few years ago, and drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble. You can get away with that your 20s, but not in your 60s, and I'll be 70 next year. Life is a small space now, much more intimate. I'm not out there in the world anymore, but I'm watching.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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Right after undergrad, I started doing low-level work on health issues in sub-Saharan Africa, and what struck me was the disconnect between how people in New York would speak about some of the issues people were facing. At the time, 2006-ish, there were a number of big media campaigns to raise awareness about HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
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They live down on gallery two in the Chinese Sixteenth.’ ‘Don’t you mean the Chinese Quarter?’ said Peter. ‘No. That would be a quarter of a gallery,’ Festival explained. ‘This is only a sixteenth.’
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One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
