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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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'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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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.
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Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.
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As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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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.
