Ally Carter Quotes
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.
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You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
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As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
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Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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The legends are legends. Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt. Nor, by its nesting, still the waters, with the new year, for seven days. It is true, it does nest with the opening year, but not on the waters.
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Pretend and it will be true.
