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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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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People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.
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You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.
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I don't see myself as a famous person.
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You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.
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Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.
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I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.
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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.
