Carol Leifer Quotes
My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
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My health is fine.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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The sanctions have nothing to do with our relations with China, because our relations with the People's Republic of China are at an unprecedented high both in terms of their level and substance. They are what we call "a comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation".
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We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.
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I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.
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I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recognized me and started tweeting... It was the first time in my life someone handed me ice cream for acting.
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I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson, like my brother as well. We both take the mickey a bit too much.
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My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
