Charles Van Doren Quotes
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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We're really blessed that we've been as well received as we have been.
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Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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The world is a penal institution.
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When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.
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How fit is he to sway That can so well obey ('Horatian Ode,' 83-84),
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'Little Night' comes from deep in my heart, and tells about the lengths people will go for love.
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I'm the youngest of eight kids in my family. All tall, we all played basketball, so at my earliest memory, I was bouncing a ball in the backyard.
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It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
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I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
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My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.
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Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant to last only ten days.
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poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.
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Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."
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The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.
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One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'
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My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.
