Carrie Preston Quotes

I do like to get inspired by and support any female leads.

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• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Silly
  • Most
  • Absurd

• I like being by myself.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Being

• I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

  

  Earl King
  • People
  • Want
  • Blues

• You're not going to bring back all the jobs from China.

  

  Dana Perino
  • You
  • Back
  • China

• I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Lost
  • Audiences
  • Recovered

• Many of the environmentalists who moved into the environmental movement after Silent Spring ... detested pollution and craved purity. Absolute purity. They wanted to enforce zero tolerance on all environmental pollutants, not just on carcinogens. With friends like these the environment needs no enemies.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Friends
  • Environment
  • Spring

• It is a frequent vice of radical polemic to assert, and even to believe, that once you have found the lowest motive for an antagonist, you have identified the correct one. - 'Reactionary Prophet', The Atlantic, April 2004

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Believe
  • April

• When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

  

  Brenda Lee
  • Tree
  • Christmas
  • Sorry

• I didn't really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

  

  Brenda Lee

• I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Music
  • Band

• Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • God

• I really appreciate what it takes to create a book. I understand the loneliness that it involves and the excitement and the vulnerability: I especially identify with that.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Book
  • Vulnerability

• We're all looking for those moments - a relief. That's why people go out and treat themselves.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • People
  • Why
  • Moments

• The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

  

  Cindy Sherman
  • Promise

• I really didn't want to enter the UFC in a fight that nobody really cared about or where people thought I was just going to whoop some guy.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • People
  • Guy

• I think that, in the beginning, you think, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' And then, with the more movies you make, you are like, 'I don't know if I want to be that anymore. I think what I am looking for is something different.' I like acting, but a lot of times, stardom comes with a lot of strings attached.

  

  Chris Evans
  • World
  • Different
  • Movie

• I thought, "why don't we be innovative and create something nobody had ever done before?" It was a huge hit and we immediately did a sequel with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner and Maya Angelou.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Rocks
  • Innovative
  • Freeman

• If your support the community, they will support you.

  

  Jerry Greenfield
  • Community
  • Support

• The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Age
  • Silly
  • Female

• I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Dad

• I do like to get inspired by and support any female leads.

  

  Carrie Preston
  • Support
  • Inspired
  • Female