Charles King Quotes
I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I worked with him for ten years until he died and it was the most wonderful time of my life.
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I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
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I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
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If we get to a world of digital securities, then there isn't a need for DTC and Cede & Co. anymore. It's a really huge step in returning to clean capital markets.
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My first commercial was an Old Navy commercial where I stood in line in front of a club, and Fran Drescher was in it.
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I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.
