Charles Olson Quotes
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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When I was singing, everybody liked me.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
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Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.
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I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
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'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.
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I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
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'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.
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This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.
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I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.
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I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.
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In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.
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In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.
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Hands in his pockets he began to walk aimlessly down the sidewalk runnel. And, each minute, feeling more and more scared and desperate. Everything was falling apart around him. And he seemed helpless to halt the collapse; he could only witness it, completely impotent, snatched up and gripped by processes too powerful for him to understand.
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Atlantis will rise again.
