Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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• I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Artist
  • Use
  • Going

• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• My health is fine.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Health
  • Fine

• I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Speak
  • Excited

• There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Marriage
  • Hidden
  • Sword

• In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Education

• I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Purpose

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Night
  • Day
  • Morning

• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Single

• Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • You
  • Things
  • Influence

• People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Night
  • Year

• I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Believe
  • Easy

• I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Christian

• Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Man
  • Cancer
  • Nothing

• If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

  

  Jean-Luc Godard
  • Movie

• When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• 'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Life
  • Movie

• I like to laugh and make people have fun.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Fun
  • Laugh

• A lot of people say, 'Oh, playing backup quarterback, that's the best position in the world.' Well, what they don't understand is when we leave the building at 5 o'clock on Wednesday or Thursday when practice wraps up, we still need to go home and study and prepare just like you're the starter.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.

  

  Mary Chapin Carpenter
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