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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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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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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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel - very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.
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I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
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I love to dress myself. I have a unique style, but I don't try to do that – I just put on whatever I feel good in that day.
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Atlantis will rise again.
