Charles Krauthammer Quotes
I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation's destiny.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
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Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.
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I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation's destiny.
