Carole King Quotes
Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
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Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.
