Carmen Cusack Quotes
We had to grow up very fast. There never was a day when there wasn't shouting about the bills.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife. It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.
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We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.
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We had to grow up very fast. There never was a day when there wasn't shouting about the bills.
