Carrie Preston Quotes

I do play a lot of Southerners because I grew up in the South, but they're still diverse.

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• By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Time
  • Bad
  • End

• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • People
  • Know
  • Sports

• To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Wear
  • Did
  • Van

• You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Society
  • Small

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Political
  • Gay
  • Agenda

• In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Inspired
  • Voice

• It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Team
  • Group
  • Celebrate

• The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Better
  • Look

• I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Character
  • Happiness
  • Side

• Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Moment
  • Creation
  • Movement

• I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Myself
  • Star
  • Glory

• Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.

  

  Origen
  • Life
  • God
  • Progress

• As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Life
  • Character
  • History

• Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Believe
  • Influence
  • Legends

• People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • People
  • Way
  • Kind

• Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.

  

  Elvin Bishop
  • Play
  • Football
  • Grow

• A lot of things we're supposed to do are hard to do, but we can do them. They're always beneficial. Really, some things that are hard are beneficial.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Always
  • Things
  • Really

• I do play a lot of Southerners because I grew up in the South, but they're still diverse.

  

  Carrie Preston
  • Play
  • Still
  • Diverse