Carrie Nation (Carrie Amelia Nation) Quotes

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• So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • War
  • Strong
  • Leadership

• 'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Kind
  • Guilty

• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Voice
  • Tools

• I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Like

• I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Small
  • Just
  • Other

• I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Bee

• I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Picture

• Creativity for me is religious.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Religious
  • Creativity

• It takes time to become myself every morning.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Morning

• There is nothing to do but keep on.

  

  T. E. Hulme

• 'You’re sure you want to look into these cognates? You might see things you wouldn’t like.''So long as I know the truth, I don’t care whether I like it or not.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Long
  • Truth

• A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Dark

• Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Law
  • Desire

• Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Pain

• I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.

  

  Jessica Seinfeld
  • Life
  • College

• Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Beginning
  • Moon

• As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Interesting

• It's hard to get the right elements together, get the right cast, get them at the time you need them, get the script completely there, and get the right budget.

  

  Valerie Faris
  • Time
  • Together

• I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.

  

  George Clooney
  • Trying
  • Play
  • Prove

• ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Heaven
  • Tears

• The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Men
  • Hatred
  • Victim

• I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Enjoy
  • Playing

• Nobody puts Roach in the corner.

  

  Alexandra Roach

• Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

  

  Carrie Nation
  • Men
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  • Beer