Bridget Carpenter Quotes
People want to evolve the idea of the word "mini-series." Mini-series has an '80s connotation to it.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
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The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.
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As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.
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The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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I'm a lot more productive in an actual office. I love being around our other editors, and going there every day alleviates some of the guilt that I think many self-employed people feel when you know you could always be working from your laptop at home. I feel so relaxed there, while completely engaged and inspired.
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As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.
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People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
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I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
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My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.
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It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.
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In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.
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When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I'm the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would've thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.
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One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
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People want to evolve the idea of the word "mini-series." Mini-series has an '80s connotation to it.
