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• I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their ranks

  Ethan Hawke

  Drunk, Actors, Red

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• I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

  Adam Driver

  Awkward, Red, Bizarre

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• I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.

  Paul Newman

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, June 12, 2006.

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• I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that!

  Kelly Brook

  Mean, Lovely, Promise

  "Kelly Brook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

  Samantha Barks

  Car, Important, Red

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• There are lots of people who are red-carpet types, but that's not me.

  Megyn Kelly

  People, Red, Type

  "Megyn Kelly: Fox's Lady" by Julia Reed, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 4, 2013.

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• I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Believe, Writing

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, Bob Faw, www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

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• The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

  I. J. Good

  Objectivity, Judgement, Calling

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• Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes, traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies. Ducks and pigs and chickens call, animal carpet wall to wall, American ladies five-foot tall in blue. Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind, had to get away to see what we could find. Hope the days that lie ahead, bring us back to where they've led, listen not to what's been said to you. Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express? Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express, they're taking me to Marrakesh. All aboard the train, all aboard the train...

  Graham Nash

  Wall, Lying, Sunset

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• I do not give a damn what I look like, I don't. I wish I could pay attention because Gwen Stefani, say, looks flawless. Of course, when I'm on red carpets, I'm nervous, sweaty, and weird.

  Selena Gomez

  Giving, Wish, Looks

  "Selena Gomez: I’m Nervous, Sweaty & Weird On The Red Carpet" By Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2013.

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• There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet

  Adrienne Rich

  Unseen, Looks, Patterns

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. But against the emerald carpet, the warriors make war, and it is like a dance, almost beautiful, always macabre. The noise brings me back, the fearsome noise of swords striking swords, a metallic clanging that rings in my ears, echoing and echoing the fearsome din of men screaming and crying as they meet the sharp ends of blades.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Beautiful, War, Men

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• The elevator doors opened, and Ranger stepped out and spied Tank stretched out on the carpet. "Fainted," I said. Ranger walked to Tank and stood hands on hips, staring down at him. "Tank doesn't faint. I've been in firefights with him. He's a rock." "Well, the rock fainted.

  Janet Evanovich

  Rocks, Doors, Hands

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

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• Whether you are a stay-at-home mom, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.

  Bobbi Brown

  Mom, Jobs, Home

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• Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

  Chris Bangle

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Autumn, Jewels, Color

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• We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Risk, Myopic, Repeating History

  "In the Footsteps of Achebe: Enter Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". Interview with Ike Anya, www.africanwriter.com. October 15, 2005.

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• Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Doors, Magic

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• The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail, and the subtle lines of its body. [...] She sat, a tiny thing, in the middle of a yellow carpet, surrounded by five worshipppers, not at all afraid of us. Then she stalked around that floor of the house, inspecting every inch of it, climbed up on to my bed, crept under the fold of a sheet, and was at home.

  Doris Lessing

  Home, Cat, Yellow

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• I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it to the attack poodle in my office. He made a great production of it. First, he growled at the doughnut, just to show it who was boss. Then he nudged it with his nose. Then he licked it, until finally he snagged it into his mouth and chomped it with great pleasure, dropping crumbs all over the carpet.

  Ilona Andrews

  Yellow, Office, Boss

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.89, Penguin

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• I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen. When you go through the streets No one recognizes you. No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks At the carpet of red gold That you tread as you pass, The nonexistent carpet. And when you appear All the rivers sound In my body, bells Shake the sky, And a hymn fills the world. Only you and I, Only you and I, my love, Listen to it.

  Pablo Neruda

  Queens, Sky, Hymns

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Years, Two, Feelings

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• So this was it. You take a wrong step and you end up wearing yesterday's underwear, sitting on the carpet trying to teach yourself how to knit. And even that doesn't work. She never expected it to be so hard. Life.

  Kate Jacobs

  Yesterday, Hard Life, Trying

  Kate Jacobs (2008). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.180, Penguin

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• But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Soul, Mediocrity

  Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.174, Random House

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• Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.

  Arundhati Roy

  Memories, Water, Heaven

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