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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A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
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I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.
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I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.
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I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.
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I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.
