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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Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.
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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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Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.
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Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.
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We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.
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Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.
