Charlie Trotter Quotes
I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.
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While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn't sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn't such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all.
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Fifty years from now, if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books, we shall not exist.
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I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
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However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen. The very best pictures are the most relaxed, so a lot of fussing around technically can completely break the spell, and everyone freezes up with nerves.
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I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
