Charles H. Townes (Charles Hard Townes) Quotes
'I feel that very rarely have I done any work in my life. I have a good time. I'm exploring. I'm playing a game, solving puzzles, and having fun, and for some reason people have been willing to pay me for it. Officially, I was supposed to retire years ago, but retire from what? Why stop having a good time?'
Charles H. Townes
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. Chidambaram
You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to look good. You ever see someone wear something that's crazy and say, 'That's so crazy!' But they look good in it, because they feel good in it - you can just tell.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
Victoria Pratt
It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.
Carey Mulligan
I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
R. J. Cutler
If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.
Valorie Curry
My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.
Marvin Hamlisch
Someday beneath some hard Capricious star - Spreading its light a little Over far, We'll know you for the woman That you are.
Djuna Barnes
Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.
Donald Miller
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
Zadie Smith
What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.
Lorene Scafaria
'I feel that very rarely have I done any work in my life. I have a good time. I'm exploring. I'm playing a game, solving puzzles, and having fun, and for some reason people have been willing to pay me for it. Officially, I was supposed to retire years ago, but retire from what? Why stop having a good time?'
Charles H. Townes