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.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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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.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
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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.
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Creativity for me is religious.
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'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.'
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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.
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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.
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I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every team has a person who is used as a reference, a player who stands out more than others.
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Moving to L.A. was hard. I had a career in Spain, and you have to forget your ego. I was a nobody again.
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I think most documentaries are too long.
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'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
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Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
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Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.
