Carly Simon Quotes
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.
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When you start to prioritize hiring likable people within your organization, these likable people will attract other likable people.
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The white usurpation in our common country must be stopped, or we, its rightful owners, be forever destroyed and wiped out as a race of people. I am now at the head of many warriors backed by the strong arm of English soldiers. Choctaws and Chickasaws, you have too long borne with grievous usurpation inflicted by the arrogant Americans.
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.
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'I say to the Dublin government, Mr Faulkner says it's 'hands across the border to Dublin'. I say, if they don't behave themselves in the South, it will be shots across the border!'
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How could I of all people, chastise someone for their past?
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I went to Norman High then I walked across the street after that and went to college. That's my home town, that's where I'm from. Physically I'm a Texan, but I'm an Oklahoman.
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As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.
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The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project.
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Together, we will lead our party back to the White House, and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity, and peace.
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I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don't mix.
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.
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My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn't describe myself as that. Because I don't have to. Because I'm not a political party. Most people are a little bit of each, and we change our mind on various issues.
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I started out years ago as a theater major and got disillusioned with it. It's a rough business.
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A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
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I thought masturbating was embarassing. I didn't even know why. It just was. It was like having sex with yourself. Having sex with yourself was really weird. Autoeroticism.
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I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
