Charlene Costanzo Quotes
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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I believe in forgiveness.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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Eagles had made a realist of him. He believed in facts, and in altering your viewpoint to fit them, no matter what they were. That was the way you survived and stayed sane; it was hard, it meant sacrifices-he had already lost many things that he valued deeply-but it was the only way.
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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Indeed I do and I admire it. I am a practicing Catholic.
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We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government; and, lastly, a pure and spiritual religion, the deep fountain of generous enthusiasm, the mighty spring of bold and lofty designs, the great sanctuary of moral power.
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I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.
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Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.
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In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.
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I need to sleep more. The 'sleep when I die' mantra is not cute.
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I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.
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I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
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May hope rise within you. May peace wash over you.
