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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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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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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I feel like people are expecting me to fail, therefore, I expect myself to win.
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It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.
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You have Mel Brooks and your Marx Brothers and your Larry David. So it's affected it enormously and really not at all. I don't think I've ever done anything comedically where the joke of it had to do with Judaism and Jewishness, but there's definitely a proud tradition of comedy in the Jews.
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes.
