Charles Olson Quotes
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The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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I hate the domestic life.
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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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I want England to understand - the rest of the world to understand - what is going on in America. And I want America to understand what is going on in the rest of the world.
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He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.
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I love hosting. I've always really enjoyed making people happy, and so anytime I'm doing anything or the event is doing anything, and I look around and there are smiles on everybody's faces, I feel like I've succeeded in doing something. That's the stuff that I'm most grateful for.
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When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.
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Nobody should live in an environment that's not healthy.
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I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.
