Caroline Polachek Quotes

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

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• I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.

  

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• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

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• Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.

  

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• I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.

  

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• I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.

  

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• It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.

  

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• These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

  

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• I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.

  

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• I look at the NFL and see how the transition has gone at quarterback. I might be coming along at a good time. For me personally, this is about doing the same thing I've been doing at USF - just smile, have fun, enjoy the experience, keep a positive attitude and encourage my teammates. I like to feed off the people around me.

  

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• I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.

  

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• There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.

  

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• I am a straightforward man.

  

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• I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all.

  

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• My first children's book, 'Tickle Monster,' was inspired by tickling my son one evening.

  

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• I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • Inspired
  • Mania
  • Caricature