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.
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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.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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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.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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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.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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With regards to pressure, you can't be too conscious of it.
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Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
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Long before 'American Idol', people used to call me a diva. And I be like, 'Hold on, are you calling me something else on the sly? You gonna call me a diva, call me a good diva.'
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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.
