Carrie Jones Quotes
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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Our entire franchise has done everything in its power to put all of our players and its coaching staff in the best possible position to execute when it counts. And to deliver to the highly supportive fans of Cleveland a proud, intense, impassioned, all-out drive to achieve a championship.
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I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.
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Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'
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Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
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The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.
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I've always enjoyed seeing how things are made.
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Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them?
