Carrie Preston Quotes
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I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
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Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.
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Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
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We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
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And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
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The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.
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But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.
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Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
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I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
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I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone.
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I think that freedom of speech is just that, and groups have the right to support or oppose issues that are going to affect them as well as individuals do.
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When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
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The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
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No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
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Even if you wanted to be a hermit, people come out looking for you. I don't want to cloister myself away, but it is important for me to write about issues that have universal significance. One of them that have resonated with me all my life has been the theme of injustice.
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As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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I really have fun doing music for visuals and stuff.
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The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to show up on time and getting the film to the lab and getting the camera, and all this stuff that I'm happy to do, but if I'm doing every little thing, I'm not concentrating on my story. So it never gets any better than the script.
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As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.
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Take every job. Learn everybody's name. Show up early. Know who you are and know who you're not. Stop dreaming and start trying.
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I did a lot of multi-cam shows when I first started coming out to L.A.
