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 take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Pride

• I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Up
  • Fun

• What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Crimes
  • Judges
  • Indulgence

• I'm actually looking for a gallery, but the thing is some galleries just want to show the video work and some are just interested in the 2-D work. It has to be a gallery where I can do the 2-D collages, the video, and live performance, where it's not this weird conflict, where it can all move forward.

  

  Kalup Linzy
  • Work
  • Live
  • Weird

• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Learn

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

  

  Carrie Nation
  • Men
  • Devil
  • Beer