Bridget Carpenter Quotes
I had been emotionally affected by the story of Steven King, on my own, and I knew how I wanted to feel watching it because I had felt it already reading it. God bless them, Bad Robot hired me to develop it and I spent the next six months in a room, alone, with a lot of index cards up on a wall, like the guy in A Beautiful Mind.
Quotes to Explore
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
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Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.
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The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.
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My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.
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Chorus leader: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! (heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38)
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Princes appear to me to be Fools Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something Else besides Human Life.
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singing the song her therapist told her to improvise in order to 'let her anxieties out' If I keep the kitchen floor clean, no one will die!
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.
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I will not change unless my manager or the people from my club or my supporters tell me.
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You have to have courage to be obedient to God.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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The thinnest people on the planet are those who eat the most carbohydrates.
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I had been emotionally affected by the story of Steven King, on my own, and I knew how I wanted to feel watching it because I had felt it already reading it. God bless them, Bad Robot hired me to develop it and I spent the next six months in a room, alone, with a lot of index cards up on a wall, like the guy in A Beautiful Mind.
