Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes
I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
Garrison Keillor
Hip-hop is a vehicle.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
Ed Speleers
A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
Laura Linney
I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
Larry Niven
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
Rachel Gibson
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson
I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
Kate Thompson
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny
Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
Lark Voorhies
I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
Caitlin Doughty
There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
Yi So-Yeon
Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?
Emil Cioran
There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.
Ben Barnes
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
Joyce Meyer
Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.
Louis C. K.
I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
