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 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 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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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 like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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I approach music and acting the same way, through spontaneous improvisation. I never really try to rehearse anything, do it over and over, except when we're inside a take.
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I love Manchester. I love Manchester United. But I would really struggle to be creative there. I feel a bit lost, over-familiar maybe. Maybe too stuck in my own web of history.
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I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.
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I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you don't happen to use what you've worked on that day, it has taught you something and you'll be amazed when you might come back to it and use it again.
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I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.
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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
