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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This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
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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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Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and put it down. It comes from the heart.
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During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I'm glad it worked out I'm here.
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Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.
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«It is one thing to be supportive, and another to be in exchange for nothing.»
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September 11 definitely opened our eyes, but when I was 19 or whatever on the last record, we just didn't care about anything. We were too young to care about anything. And then as you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark. That just kind of opened everyone's eyes (which I probably wish it did to more people) that there's obviously something wrong, to try and figure out what it is and what's going on in the world.
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I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
