Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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The 100m is never stressful.
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America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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I grew up in Christianity. They preach a lot that you should get married and be a wife and be a virtuous woman and all of that. So I was so eager to do that, and I didn't really take the time I needed to grow into my own. And I ended up running into a really bad situation. I didn't even really date my ex-husband. We just kind of jumped into it.
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I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
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No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.
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I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.
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When you have a new baby, you can get really overwhelmed, since it's such a huge responsibility. You're thrilled to be a mom, but your sleep schedule is so thrown off and it can be scary if you don't have a good support system.
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If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics 'until later', don't think that you've 'gotten away with it so far'. Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.
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Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
