Carrie Jones Quotes

Pixiophobia: a fear of Pixies. I made this up, but believe me it should be a word because it sure is a legitimate fear.

Carrie Jones

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• Pixies
• Pixiophobia

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• I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.

  

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• Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

  

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• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

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• When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

  

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• I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

  

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• I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.

  

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• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

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• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

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• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

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• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

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• I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.

  

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• 'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.

  

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• Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.

  

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• I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

  

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• We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

  

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• Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

  

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• The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!

  

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• Between death on the field and death by starvation, I do not know that the American people will see any great difference. The end, if successfully reached, would be death in either case. Gentlemen, you have it in your power to kill this government; you have it in your power, by withholding these two bills, to smite the nerve-centers of our Government.

  

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• Pixiophobia: a fear of Pixies. I made this up, but believe me it should be a word because it sure is a legitimate fear.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Fear
  • Word
  • Legitimate