Carey Williams Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
-
I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
-
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
-
Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
-
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
-
I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
-
Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
-
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
-
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
-
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
-
I am not looking for a life partner right now. But if I've to list out the requirements, I have a huge list. But the first requirement is he should be tall and should be taller than me; even I wear heels.
-
I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
-
If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
-
You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
-
Even the ears must dance.
-
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
-
The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
-
I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
-
Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.
-
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
-
You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.
-
I like living on my own. I'm happy for a man to come over. I'll cook for him; he can spend the night occasionally, but then I want him to leave. I'm too independent.
-
I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.
-
Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.
