Charisma Carpenter Quotes
I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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When I say, 'I can't stay long, I'm in-between meals,' that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So I have to pick material that works because the words are funny, not just because of the images.
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For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.
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So those of us who believe in democracy, we need to speak out forcefully, because both the facts and history, I believe, are on our side. That doesn’t mean democracies are without flaws. It does mean that the cure for what ails our democracies is greater engagement by our citizens - not less.
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You're imprinted in high school more than any other point in your life.
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I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
