Carrie Preston Quotes

I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.

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• I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Environment

• You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

  

  Andy Grove
  • World
  • Die
  • Revolution

• It's a scene in Boston Harbor. It's in the Yellow Sitting Room on the second floor. And he always teased me about not having my name on it.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Name
  • Scene
  • Teased

• We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Requests
  • Repetitions

• This film [Doctor Strange] kind of takes that everyday boring reality and really bursts it wide. So we talked a lot about that. In many ways there's something very practical about this world, the Kamar-Taj. It's - You know, we all look like samurai warriors, but actually there are iPads everywhere and there's a feeling that it's a practical possibility for this modern world that the Doctor Strange universe is functioning, and that we know it and it's around the corner for all of us.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Reality
  • Feelings
  • Everyday

• This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.

  

  William Styron
  • Morning
  • Judgment
  • Excellent

• The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Love
  • Dying
  • Regret

• In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Teaching
  • Questions
  • Scripture

• Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

  

  Tertullian
  • Woman
  • Patience
  • Proves

• Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Imagine
  • Marry
  • Fancy

• It's time to do something different. Mind you, I'm grateful to have my career with The B-52s, but it's nice to have fun and play with my voice.

  

  Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
  • Different
  • Career
  • Voice

• In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Important
  • Art
  • Culture

• I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming. I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Global Warming

• The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to do with it, but then I just went with it, because as a writer as well as a translator I do believe that translated words are not different names for the same thing. They're different names for different things. I tried to stay as true as I could, so I used Ruben Cobos' dictionary of Southwestern Spanish, and when I went into Spanish I never assumed the word I would use would be the word a nuevomexicano would use.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Believe
  • Different
  • True

• Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Scripts
  • Linear

• And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Cup
  • Sparkles

• Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

  

  Eleanor Porter
  • Time
  • Live
  • Aunt

• I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • City
  • I Feel
  • Address

• I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.

  

  Carrie Preston
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