Charlie Trotter Quotes
There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
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There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop.
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For me, it's really important that the experience of art is always something that is able to provoke strong emotion, an emotion that you feel in your heart or your stomach, but also that challenges the brain at the same time. It's an experience - physical and intellectual.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.
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There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.
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There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.
