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Liz Carpenter Quotes

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 1, 1920

Topics

Make A Difference Person Washington

At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing.

Time Money Do The Right Thing Looking

Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

Care Enough Need Close Oscars Oh

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

Collaboration Book Act Ultimate

In all of my press junkets for 'Spy Kids,' I was saying that my two favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Steve Carell. And I ended up getting to work with both of them.

Work Saying Two Spy Up Kids

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

Songwriting Whole Make Album Albums

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

God Walk New York Building Hockey

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

Dontrelle Willis

Uniform Want Circus Like Traveling

'Jaws' was the first A-list picture that was released like an exploitation picture. They made a lot of money with that picture because they could save a lot of money on advertising. Instead of having a full-page ad in 'The New York Times' for one theater, they had it for 100 theaters.

Peter Bogdanovich

Money New York Advertising Picture

The majority of modern medicines originate in nature. Although some mushrooms have been used in therapies for thousands of years, we are still discovering new potential medicines hidden within them.

Nature Potential New Hidden Within

It doesn't matter how beautifully a film is photographed. The acting tells your story. It's what people relate to. If you don't believe the characters, it doesn't work.

Work People Believe Story Acting

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

Man Picture Only Who Idiotic

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Work Funny Comedy You Joke Too

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