Charlie Haden Quotes
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.
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I am not as simple as I look.
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.
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I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.
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Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a lot of action to keep her interested, you must offer something else in its stead. Slow pace is ideal for complex character development, detailed description, and nuances of style.
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?
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We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.
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At the end of the day, I'm a man.
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Boys are so much drama.
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I have an agent now.
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I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.
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Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word.
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Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.
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I didn't play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.
