Alycia Debnam-Carey Quotes
Teen fandom is so potent. Any choice they make in pop culture forces the rest of the world to take notice.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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More than 50 percent of kids who play an instrument go on to college, yet music education programs at the inner city public schools who need them most continue to be hit hard with budget cuts.
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Family is the most important thing: you can't buy them with money.
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We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth.
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Teen fandom is so potent. Any choice they make in pop culture forces the rest of the world to take notice.
