Carrie Jones Quotes
That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.
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Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!
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The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion.
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Apparently, the Fates were not so unsubtle as to deal him another blow just yet. He knew they didn’t operate that way. They always let you hope for a while longer, then strung it out before they really let you have it.
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That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.
