E. S. Carter Quotes

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

I just want to give you this one piece of advice: if you're standing and you could be sitting, sit. If you're sitting and you could be lying down, lie down.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities.

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible

His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

Make sure you are passionate about the vision.

Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend.

Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.

Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.

I can get up at 8am and be rested... or I can get up at 5am and be President.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you’re supposed to, or because it’s what you’ve always done — or it’s about giving until it hurts.

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

Once you become aware of what stands in your way and become willing to release it, you signal the universe that you are ready to manifest the life you were meant to live.

Many of us struggle with ideas that come to our head from our self-identification.

I'm just trying to matter.

Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.

Without volunteers, we'd be a nation without a soul.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Inside that book, it's my life-all the places where I'm hurting or I laughed or I cried or I prayed. And I've had to pray a lot!

If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.

Let's be pastors who cast vision that are worth people giving their life for.

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

Organic farming is personal.

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.