Charlton Heston Quotes
It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I love India.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.
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When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.
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It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?
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The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity.
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It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.
