Josh Charles Quotes

I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun.

Josh Charles

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• Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Day

• I am who I am.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Person

• There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Live
  • Character
  • Blessings

• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Back

• On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Country
  • Single
  • Hand

• I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Need

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Single

• Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Living
  • Jews
  • Million

• But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Work
  • Way
  • Idea

• I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Great
  • Give
  • Direction

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • See

• The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Democracy

• I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Political
  • Goal
  • Writer

• I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Lost

• When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Want
  • Race
  • Pool

• I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Issues
  • Publishing
  • South Africa

• I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • People
  • Trying
  • Literature

• There was a very slight chance she might actually kill him that way, and if she did, she’d be brought up on charges. Unless, of course, she could prove harmful intent. She could see it now. See, Your Honor, he was going to f*ck me silly, make me like it.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Up
  • She
  • Honor

• Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.

  

  George Clooney
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Risk

• I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun.

  

  Josh Charles
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Silly