Charles Keating (Charles Humphrey Keating Jr.) Quotes
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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I love Somali foods like canjeero, a pancakelike bread; same for pizza, burgers, and sushi.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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When it was time for a player to go, he went.
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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
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I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.'
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I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.
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Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for.
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Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
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If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.
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There's two systems of health care: the one for the rich that's really good, then there's the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead.
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When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
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I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.
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If there's any country that has the capacity not to control North Korea, but to influence North Korea, it's still China. The Chinese always say they have very little influence. They have more than they say they do. We should put pressure on them to do it and there's finally, we're seeing the first signs of a little bit of Chinese disaffection. At some point they're getting tired of the antics of this country. This is a dangerous ally for China to have. And the more Chinese can pressure them and put the economic screws on them, the better it will be for everybody.
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But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.
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I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
