Charles Keating (Charles Humphrey Keating Jr.) Quotes
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
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I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.
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Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.
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Krishna Vamsi is a very good director.
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Ordo et connexio idearum idem est ac ordo et connexio rerum
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The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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I often say flippantly that the short story is... shorter; you can be done with it more easily. It's much less of a commitment of time and energy than a big project like a novel or long nonfiction book.
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Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
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Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
