Amy Carlson Quotes

On the one hand, I always get the young ingenue, pretty parts. But I don't think of myself that way because I was an ugly duckling when I was growing up. I have to be reminded when I play a part sometimes that I'm playing the pretty girl.

Amy Carlson

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Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

John Doerr

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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

John Dryden

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I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

Sufjan Stevens

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My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

Roger Bannister

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When you leave your country, it's hard to leave your family over there. My whole family is in Venezuela.

Miguel Cabrera

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On 'Transparent,' I work closely with LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming people who are now my close friends - truth be told, we're all more like family.

Jay Duplass

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When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it's always around and you're very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I knew about and really liked.

Joseph Altuzarra

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We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment.

Jose Angel Gurria

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I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.

Christopher Meloni

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My 'Chili Palmer' was my mother. Her name is Carmen Milian, and she's my manager. Before getting into music, we actually educated ourselves, and I went to college for music as a business and learned the business side, and she read a lot of books.

Christina Milian

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My mother dressed me always very conservatively.

Selma Blair

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Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If there's too little, I might have some problems. There's a sort of dynamic system there.

Timothy Morton

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