Edmund Snow Carpenter Quotes
“If somebody doesn't like you, there's nothing you can do to make that person like you.”
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'
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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
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I don't like actors, I like women.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
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I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.
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I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.
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You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.
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“If somebody doesn't like you, there's nothing you can do to make that person like you.”
