Alice Cary Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line's gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That's just how it's gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you're gonna put in your music.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.
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When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.
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I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.
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I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.
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I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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There's no point in using someone else's characters if you're going to turn them into your own vision. You have to be loyal to that person's worldview and sensitive to what they would and wouldn't have done with their characters, and how explicit or inexplicit they would've been.
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You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.
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The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.
