Charles Farrar Browne Quotes
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.
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Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
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The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'm trying to get him to do my life story and the history of the Black Panther Party.
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He is dreadfully married. 'He's the most married man I ever saw in my life.'
