Dean-Charles Chapman Quotes

Normally, when my stuff's on the telly, I don't watch my own bits.

Dean-Charles Chapman

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• Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Time
  • Money
  • Parents

• I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Years
  • Loved

• I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Freaks
  • Galactica

• It's difficult when you want it all.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Want
  • You
  • Difficult

• The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying to be pretty!' Inherent in that is a lot of misogyny, I think, because the implication is, 'You must work hard to achieve a feminine ideal for which society has nothing but contempt.'

  

  Rae Carson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Trying

• Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Men
  • Why
  • Wise

• No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Love
  • Fun

• I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• Music is my balance... center of my life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Music
  • Balance

• I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Game
  • Something
  • Dialogue

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Job
  • House
  • Leadership

• Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Trying
  • Fashion
  • Decision

• I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Career
  • Know

• We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • World
  • Nature
  • U.S.

• Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Remember
  • Problem
  • Back

• Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

  

  Betty Cuthbert
  • Effort

• Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

  

  Frank Miller
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Amazing

• One of the best ways to convince someone is to use a telling example, a story, a narrative. When Steve Jobs announced a new product, he told a story, exzlaining how a product would change the world as we know it. He turned Apple into a story whose challenges and adventures you want to hear about.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • World

• Normally, when my stuff's on the telly, I don't watch my own bits.

  

  Dean-Charles Chapman