Charles Van Doren Quotes
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
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I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.
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Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.
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Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.
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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
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If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.
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I've become a little immune to the gazes of strangers because it's been a part of my life for so long.
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I think for anybody, regardless of what industry you work in, when you get a new job, and it's progressive in terms of your career, that is one of the best feelings in the world.
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Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
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I never wanted to see another quiz show.
