Lauren Ashley Carter Quotes
With the performances, I have been very fortunate to pick things and to find scripts that I really love. I always try to do something that I haven't done before.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.'
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I'm happiest when I'm with my daughter and I don't have any distractions with my phone going off.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective.
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With the performances, I have been very fortunate to pick things and to find scripts that I really love. I always try to do something that I haven't done before.
