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.
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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.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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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.
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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.
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I do not cook.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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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.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
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When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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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.
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I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.
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A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.
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The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
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My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
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I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
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You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.
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My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.
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And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.
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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.
