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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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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My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
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Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.
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I don't think you can consistently be a winning trader if you're banking on being right more than 50 percent of the time. You have to figure out how to make money being right only 20 to 30 percent of the time.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
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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.
