Carly Simon Quotes
You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne.
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It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
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You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
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I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.
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I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.
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The Hoosier way is quite simple - we work hard, and we live within our means.
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When I'm in show mode, I can't even think about putting on makeup; I just have to be centered.
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Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.
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For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.
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But as far as being an American and loving this country and getting a chance to travel across it every day and meeting people on the road and folks in the military, I love this country on so many different levels.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
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You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne.
