Charles Gwathmey Quotes
I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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This is quite a time. Maybe the most unique time ever for me. But I can't thank everyone enough for what they've done for New Orleans. We have really gotten a chance to find out who we are at a time like this. And where we are. We're in the greatest country in the world.
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
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I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.
