Carrie Jones Quotes
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.
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I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.
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God does not need to speak for himself in order for us to discover definitive signs of his will; it is enough to examine the normal course of nature and the consistent tendency of events. I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which his hand has drawn.
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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
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My body is an instrument for me to use.
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Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.
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The fact that we don't have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms of, truly, whether it's useful or not.
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I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement.
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This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.
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I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.
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I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for me than my own judgment.
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I give a little wave back because it's more mature then giving him the finger.
