Charles James Quotes
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.
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If you're doing black music, you should have a core understanding of where that comes from, and the fundamentals - so you're not some bozo thinking you're doing something new.
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But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it is important, in this seat, to make sure that you're making your best judgments based on data, intelligence, the information that's coming from your commanders and folks on the ground and you're not being swayed by politics.
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Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.
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We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.
