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 live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
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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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As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.
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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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When somebody loves youIt's no good unless he loves you - all the wayHappy to be near youWhen you need someone to cheer you - all the way.
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Tragedy is a literary concept.
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We have as many audiences as we have phases of our career. And all of us are older now. We've grown in different directions, so that the result is a band that's sometimes a little scattered -- just like it was with the original version of the band, really. ... All Chicago albums are stylistically all over the map, and that's a good thing. We can play to anyone.
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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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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
