Carla Hall Quotes
When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.
Quotes to Explore
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
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I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.
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I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov -
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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My fans are going to support me through thick and thin; 100 per cent, they'll always support me.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.
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I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.
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There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.
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Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
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Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in 'Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat' gave me a taste for it.
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You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.'
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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.
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I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.
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One film is based on the Medea myth about a woman who kills her own child - The Love of Ruins. It is almost a technical exercise to see if I can convince an audience or make an audience sympathetic to a woman who kills her own child.
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Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.
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When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.
