Carol Alt Quotes
Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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I don't really write any of my raps down. The same, Kanye don't write any of his raps down. Common. It's easy that way. For me, personally, I figure I will lose some of the inspiration in the time of me writing it down, or I'll say it a certain way because I wrote it a certain way.
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Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.
