Carol Anshaw Quotes
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.
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Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
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I knew I had to find my own way of teaching.
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If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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One play can change your momentum forever.
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I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.
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I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.
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When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.