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.
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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.
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I am who I am.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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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.
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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.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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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.
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It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
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I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?
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The Gamifaction Movement is trying to help companies engage their audience and community by using game mechanics and wrapping them around shopping or achievements, so you get achievements for coming to a store or purchasing things, like rewarding activities.
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You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.
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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.
