Charles Simmons Quotes
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh?
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I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm doing and I think, 'God, I've never seen anything like that before!' And that's a real thrill.
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
