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

• '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

• 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

• Every team has a person who is used as a reference, a player who stands out more than others.

  

  Neymar
  • Team
  • Player

• Moving to L.A. was hard. I had a career in Spain, and you have to forget your ego. I was a nobody again.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Career
  • Moving
  • Ego

• I think most documentaries are too long.

  

  Marshall Curry
  • Long

• I go through the same kind of situations as other people. I have to give that to people, because people have this facade, this mirage, this mirror about me.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • People
  • Mirror

• 'Mad Men' is the greatest example of a perfect cast uniting with a perfect group of writers and creators to create a show that is bold, brutal, and brilliant.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Mad

• We should cooperate much more closely in fighting terrorism, which is a great challenge.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Fighting
  • Should
  • Challenges

• Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • God
  • Film
  • Ignorance

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

  

  Carrie Nation
  • Men
  • Devil
  • Beer