Ally Carter Quotes
Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
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I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
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The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
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It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.
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That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.
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I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.
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I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.
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Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.
