Charles Farrar Browne Quotes
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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.
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Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.
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I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
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I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
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When you're eight or nine years old and you look at the TV set men are landing on the moon - anything is possible. And that is something we need to not lose sight of, is that the inspiration and permission to dream is immense. … It's important to have specific dreams.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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I'm not gonna lie, I love the holidays. But Christmas was a lot more fun when you weren't paying for it.
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O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water! Ye happy mixtures of more happy days.
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So I go back and forth foreverAll my thoughts they come in pairsOh I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't,I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared
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But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy.
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The unraveling that I experienced much earlier in the Vietnam war than many people think, was due to the immediate foxhole experiences. But once I got back home and began to follow the war on TV and in the press I began to see this enormous con game - I can't think of any other word for it - that government and the military was foisting on the American people, especially on the young men of my generation, and even worse, the young men of my generation who weren't particularly economically or intellectually privileged.
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If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you.
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I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
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I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.
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Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.
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Did you ever have the measels, and if so, how many?
