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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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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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 did some modeling here and there but nothing really big. There was a time when I simply bummed around, waiting for offers.
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I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.
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The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.
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Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.
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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.
