Charlie Trotter Quotes
As tough as I've been on anybody, as hard as I've ever been on anybody, I have been harder on myself. By far.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.
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I think we could all do better sometimes of not overextending ourselves as much.
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Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'
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One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
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I'm a fashion designer. I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend.
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Single-payer is about making our society a better place. It's about putting people over profits.
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Pass in, pass in, the angels say, In to the upper doors; Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to Paradise By the stairway of surprise.
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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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I climb up, go down again, then climb up once more; between all my studies, as a relaxation I explore every footpath, always curious to see something new.
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Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
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It was abominable - wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.
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Grey cloth coaxes the lime trees of friends shadowing berries dropped by the grateful earth.
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The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.
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One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do … the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.
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As tough as I've been on anybody, as hard as I've ever been on anybody, I have been harder on myself. By far.
