Ally Carter Quotes
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Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.
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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
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Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
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If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.
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With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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I definitely think that typecasting is something that happens all the time.
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Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
