Carrie Preston Quotes

I watch a lot of television. I love doing it, obviously, but I really love watching it.

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• Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Character
  • Success
  • Way

• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Life
  • Normal

• Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • First
  • Special
  • Bar

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Looking
  • Prophet
  • Backward

• When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Different
  • Question
  • Purpose

• Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.

  

  Xavi
  • World
  • Music
  • Movie

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Character
  • Job
  • End

• Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Stop

• I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Believe
  • Peace

• I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Good
  • Want
  • Look

• Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Life
  • Right
  • Born

• I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Help
  • Thought
  • Movies

• Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Loved

• Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Struggle

• You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Morning
  • Plant
  • Oak

• I watch a lot of television. I love doing it, obviously, but I really love watching it.

  

  Carrie Preston
  • Love
  • Television
  • Watch