Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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I've been a fascinated observer of grand public funerals since I was a kid, starting with the life-altering black-and-white images of President John F. Kennedy's funeral.
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Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority.
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The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.
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The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.
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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
