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 love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.
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I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.
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The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.
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When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
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“If somebody doesn't like you, there's nothing you can do to make that person like you.”
