Carrie Vaughn Quotes
If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.
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Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
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I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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In my opinion the religion that makes men rebel and fight against their government is not the genuine article, nor is the religion the right sort which reconciles them to the idea of eating their bread in the sweat of other men's faces. It is not the kind to get to heaven on.
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I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.
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A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress – though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known.
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Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
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Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, and astonish all of life.
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To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!
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When I was young, my father told me I was living in a dream world. At the time, he was trying to straighten me up to fly right. Now I treasure the part of my life that is a dream world - the love of my children, my music - these loves can put you in a dreamy place. I embrace it.
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If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday
