Charlie Haas Quotes
Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.
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I feel the sexiest when my fiance tells me - when I wake up in the morning and my hair is a mess and I'm in sweats - 'You look so beautiful.' So I feel the sexiest when I'm not trying hard.
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I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.
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This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it's going to hurt America.
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In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece
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Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.
