Charles Williams Quotes
Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.
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I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Find something that makes you happy and go for it.
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Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
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In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
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In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
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I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really want to be there. It makes all the difference in the world. It's without ego and agenda, other than just wanting to fulfill a creative dream.
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I drove a brand new Lamborghini, the Huracan; it was great. We went on the Autobahn, and we got to drive on the Nurburgring.
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Money is just a way of keeping score.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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You have so many at-bats, and obviously if you go three out of 10, you're doing well for the season, so you try to forget every at-bat you have that's not a good one and try to stay positive.
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Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
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Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction.
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Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.
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Was it my lifelong ambition to be in the movie business? No.
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Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.
