Ally Carter Quotes
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and the Arab states is extremely limited.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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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 really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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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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When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.
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I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.
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In TV, sometimes you get lost in the fog of the scene, and when you're working with such good actors, they can bring you into the scene.
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Are you going to back down to somebody? If not, you're giving yourself a chance.
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It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
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I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.
