Charlie Trotter Quotes

You've got to give away what you love.

Charlie Trotter

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• Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Why
  • Hope

• Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Lot
  • Covered

• I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Time
  • Work
  • Eyes

• Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Find
  • Fame
  • Fortune

• My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Death

• I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Time
  • Industry
  • Hospitality

• I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Hope
  • Dogs
  • Tongue

• My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Never
  • Driving
  • Say

• When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Like
  • Feel

• Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.

  

  Edmund White
  • Paris
  • Land
  • Leave

• I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Song

• A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Great
  • Happy

• I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Find
  • Watch
  • Addicted

• I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Believe
  • Reality

• I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Silly

• I am pop, but like to shake things up a bit - funky things people wouldn't expect.

  

  Manika
  • Things
  • Expect
  • Pop

• The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Important
  • Power
  • Political

• Definitely it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some Czech filmmakers try to make movies of America in Czechoslovakia. It was always abysmal stuff.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Foolish
  • Filmmaker

• Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom, bottom to top. And in jazz, I felt like, oh, well, I can sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then sing these really, like, tiny, laser highs if I want, as well. And I have - I have no obligation to make it sound like it's just one continuous flow.

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • Singing
  • Feels
  • Jazz

• We should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Violence
  • Struggle
  • Freedoms

• If the EU doesn’'t want Turkey, they should say it now and clearly. If we are not wanted, then both sides don’t need to waste their time with negotiations.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Turkey
  • Negotiations
  • Waste Time

• Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Important
  • Future
  • Science

• You've got to give away what you love.

  

  Charlie Trotter