Charlie Rose Quotes
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.
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The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself.
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My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.
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It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
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When you say sorry it creates a better working relationship.
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I think the long interview has an important life.
