Charles M. Blow Quotes
The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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I take my work seriously.
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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The fact that human intuition is ill suited to situations involving uncertainty was known as early as the 1930's, when researchers noted that people could neither make up a sequence of numbers that passed mathematical tests for randomness nor recognize reliably whether a given string was randomly generated.
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It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
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The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.
