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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I've always done party building and party fundraising.
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In trying to imagine this world, I kept coming back to Michel Aflaq. He's a Christian Arab, a Syrian, who ends up finding his home in Iraq and is buried there - I was stunned to see his tomb is right smack down in the Green Zone.
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I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters.
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While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.
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I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
