Carole King Quotes
I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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I was always in trouble for chatting. My school reports all used to say, 'Donna is a very bright girl, but she must stop talking in class.' In the end, I made a career out of it.
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I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.
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By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.
