Ally Carter Quotes
You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
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I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
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I have a variety of styles. I don't stick to one particular style.
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But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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And, growing tired, we turn aside at last,Remember our secret selves, seek out our towers,Lay weary hands on the banisters, and climb;Climbing, each, to his little four-square dreamOf love or lust or beauty or death or crime.
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You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes.
