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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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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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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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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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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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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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 love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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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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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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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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I kept turning down roles because I knew I just wasn't ready for them.
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When the unions were fighting me 45 years ago, they could never beat me.
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In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.
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There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.
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Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
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I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.
