Caroline Corr Quotes
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
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I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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I want to play James Bond – are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
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I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.
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Fidesz's different air and its own culture must be preserved.
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We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
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The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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When I was a child, I wanted to be a jockey. I love horses, but it's not practical to have one in London. I also wanted to be an accountant, which isn't glamorous at all, but my dad was one, and I quite liked maths.
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
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Most actors hate the feeling of being handled.
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Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.
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But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I'm going to do.
