Keith Carter Quotes
Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But sometimes the dance has gone well and my subject and I have moved together as if with shared purpose.
Quotes to Explore
-
I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
-
Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
-
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
-
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
-
I do not cook.
-
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
-
We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
-
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
-
The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
-
My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
-
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
-
When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.
-
We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
-
We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
-
Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.
-
I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.
-
A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.
-
The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
-
Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security - they've got to continue to receive it. They're dependent on it. It is their primary source of income.
-
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
-
I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.
-
I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.
-
I always wish I had another shot at it. But, listen, 'Godzilla' is something that I grew up loving. We worked hard to go make one. We kind of blew it. I think everyone gets one.
-
Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But sometimes the dance has gone well and my subject and I have moved together as if with shared purpose.
