Carrie Vaughn Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
-
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
-
A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
-
I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
-
You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
-
Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
-
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
-
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
-
My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
-
Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
-
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
-
You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
-
I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
-
They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
-
It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'
-
I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.
-
You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
-
I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.
-
Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.
-
When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
-
As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't even know it anymore.
-
My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
-
As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
-
A fucked-up family's a fucked-up family, whether or not werewolves are involved.
