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.

• I was a sci-fi addict when I was a kid and a teenager. Novels, graphic novels, movies, it was my way to deal with reality.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Reality
  • Teenager

• You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Heaven
  • Exist
  • Grieve

• It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Up
  • Gun
  • Down

• I need to ask the questions the people at home want answered.

  

  David Muir
  • People
  • Home

• I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Up
  • Good
  • Character

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

  

  Dean-Charles Chapman