Charles Rosen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
-
To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
-
I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
-
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
-
I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
-
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
-
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
-
We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
-
As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
-
PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
-
When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
-
I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
-
I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
-
I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
-
I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
-
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
-
We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
-
I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
-
I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
-
After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.
-
The prospect that I could actually be a journalist triggered a 'Who do you think you are?' reaction in me. It was only in going to law school and being unhappy there that I realized that I really, really had to try it.
-
Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.
-
Michael Jackson believed in making music that made people feel good.
-
It is above all through landscape that music joins Romantic art and literature.
