Charlie Haden Quotes
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.
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I have got everything which a politician needs.
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I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.
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In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in 2009 President Obama was praised for reversing it, even though his decision was arguably just as political.
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Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
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I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested!
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Of living creatures, business men are nearest sane; their philosophy is as accurate as their multiplication table.
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I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Diwali means family, so either I go down to Bangalore, or my family comes to Mumbai. I always ensure I take a few days off.
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I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of any deal that's better for me, and I'm always so grateful that readers have indulged me as I argue with myself in my stories.
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I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.
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It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.
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The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.
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I try to be sensitive, but the atmosphere I create is very supportive. One overriding premise of the series is that guilt is not heritable. It's good to know about them, but you are not responsible for them. You don't have to apologize for them. It's a process of knowing, and the more you know, the richer the sense of yourself. The firmer your foundation as a human being is
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The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask – obviously – but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.
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Bluegrass is in my blood and in my ears.
