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.

Bridget Carpenter

• God
• Story
• Steven King
• Bad Robot
• Beautiful Mind

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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.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Know
  • Child
  • Moment

• How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mistake
  • Silence
  • Darkness

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Lose
  • Sight

• 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.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Think
  • Always
  • Spark

• Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Facts
  • Numbers
  • Belong

• At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Best

• I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Think
  • Freedom
  • Slavery

• I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Eyes

• The Bible … does not contain a single sentence that could not have been written by a man or woman living in the first century.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Single
  • Bible

• My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Truth
  • Commitment
  • Consistency

• 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)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Life
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Prince
  • Life

• 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!

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Song
  • Die
  • Singing

• Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.

  

  Fred Upton
  • Family
  • Free
  • Health

• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • God
  • Evil

• Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Job
  • Rest

• My dad was a dentist; my mom managed his office.

  

  Aileen Lee
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Love
  • Dreary
  • Riposte

• 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.

  

  Bridget Carpenter
  • God
  • Story
  • Steven King