Carol Alt Quotes
There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
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In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.
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I do believe that the president of Venezuela is really, really destroying his own country, economically, politically.
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One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.
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The NAACP believes the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party believes the NAACP is racist.
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I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
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There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working.
