Ally Carter Quotes

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.

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• Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Me
  • Say
  • Well

• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Make
  • Plan
  • Canada

• I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Guy

• I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Funny

• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Real
  • Rich
  • Poor

• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Country
  • Death

• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Tangled

• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Laugh
  • Out
  • Loud

• My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Children
  • Age
  • Thought

• I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Going
  • About
  • Worried

• We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Black
  • Community
  • Drug

• The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Truth

• I love cars, but I love bikes more.

  

  Candace Kita
  • More
  • Cars
  • Bikes

• I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

  

  M. Ward
  • Good
  • American
  • Sometimes

• What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Courage
  • Ignorance
  • Determination

• When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Sex

• The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • Men
  • Women
  • Kids

• I never called him Prince because I wanted him to be a person to me, not the man behind 'Purple Rain'. Plus, technically, I was married to the Symbol... When we got married, it was much easier. If someone else was there, I could say, 'Could I speak to my husband, please?'

  

  Mayte Garcia
  • Husband
  • Rain
  • Prince

• In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Future
  • Markets
  • Channels

• However, big that risk was, it was outweighed by the risk of the government's message becoming drowned out or undermined by her staying in office.

  

  Nicola Sturgeon
  • Government
  • Risk
  • Office

• But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Girl
  • I Knew