Charles M. Blow Quotes

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

Charles M. Blow

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• New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
  • Moments
  • New York

• It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Human
  • Impossible
  • View

• I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Environment
  • Aesthetic
  • Accused

• Let my enemies devour each other.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Enemies
  • Other
  • Devour

• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • True
  • Feeling

• Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Struggle

• When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Reading

• The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • American
  • Politics
  • Accomplishment

• That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Mistake
  • Hell
  • Environmental

• The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Summer
  • First
  • Africa

• I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Feel
  • My Life

• I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Building

• The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.'

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Fall
  • Slavery

• The most immediate influences upon AD&D were probably de Camp & Pratt, R. E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, H. P. Lovecraft, and A. Merritt.

  

  Gary Gygax

• Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • May
  • Character
  • Serious

• A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause?

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Country
  • Fate
  • Brave

• It is the same thing: killing, dying, it is the same thing: one is just as alone in each. He is lucky, he will only die once. As for me, for ten days I have been killing him at every minute.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Die
  • Alone
  • Dying

• I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Relationship

• To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began. If in one small degree it shows him where he can be...gentler, saner, cleaner, kindlier...it is a wonder-working book. If it opens his eyes to one beauty in nature he never saw for himself and leads him one step toward the God of the Universe, it is a beneficial book.

  

  Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Thinking
  • Universe
  • Wonder

• My father's relationship with Pac was something I was proud of.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Proud

• If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Why
  • Science
  • Wonder

• I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

  

  Charles M. Blow