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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Long
  • Real

• I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • More
  • Three
  • Days

• My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• 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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Book
  • Lost

• There's always a source for humor.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Always
  • Humor
  • Source

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Face

• 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.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Down
  • Sides

• I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.

  

  Halsey
  • Work
  • Music
  • Punk

• 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.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Nice
  • Sometimes
  • Balance

• I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people that have this.' I like to see that someone's put a lot of labor into making something.

  

  Adam Jones
  • People
  • You
  • See

• Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • Health
  • Insurance

• 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.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Power
  • Strong

• 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.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Different
  • Game
  • Past

• All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no...

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Friends
  • Soul

• Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Cold
  • Sympathy

• Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • God

• No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

  

  James Mattis
  • Bad
  • Hand
  • Positive

• My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the ground, or the air, and disappear in the same way.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Disappear
  • Gentlemen
  • Astonished

• Revolutions go not backward.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Go
  • Revolutions
  • Backward

• Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • Long
  • May
  • Democracy

• I then walk off into the swamp along the path of logs and tree-trunks, picking my way cautiously, now glancing right and left on the foliage, and then surveying carefully the surface of the smooth round log I am walking on.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Path
  • Walking
  • Tree

• When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

  

  Charisma Carpenter