Charisma Carpenter Quotes
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
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Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
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I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.
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Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.
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Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.
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Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.
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Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don’t put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.
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Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.
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All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no...
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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
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Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
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Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.
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I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.
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I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy.
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It has deprived that mind of the cardinal advantage of knowing the sublime meaning of the splendid Jewish-Christian Scriptures, which are a collection of ancient mythographic portrayals of spiritual truth, sadly and calamitously mistaken for history.
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Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
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Whenever I start an acting job and talk to my fellow actors, and I tell them I am from Nottingham, they guess I'm from the Workshop, it's so well known.
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Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.
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When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
