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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If there's ever any point in my life where I could meet Jennifer Aniston, I think that'd be pretty incredible!
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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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Words do have a limited range of meaning, and no interpretation that goes beyond that range is permissible.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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’They are a very great boon to mankind, dentists,’ said Isabel. ‘And I’m not sure that we are grateful enough to them. I’m not sure that we even bother to thank them.’ She paused. Were there any statues of dentists? She thought not. And yet there should be.
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One of the things that I really admire about the Marvel motion pictures is that, in one year, 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier,' which was a taut political thriller, and 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' which was a cosmic comedy, came out, and they could not be more different, and yet they both felt very Marvel.
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I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.'
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The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic.
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The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old.
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If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.
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Bluegrass is in my blood and in my ears.
