Charles A. Reich (Charles Alan Reich) Quotes
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
It's not good to thicken sauce with too much butter because it can cause heaviness. You don't want to avoid butter, but you also don't want to put too much - add it slowly.
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We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
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You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.
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Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
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Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
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Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'
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Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'
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A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.
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If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.
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It's still a soft R, but when I watch other people's standup, I'm dumbfounded that people call me dirty. That's only because I did family television.
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As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.
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For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.
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Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there's always four or five.
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'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
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Social messaging has become the defining app of the smartphone era. Social payments has been a natural extension of this phenomenon - it's going to be the locus of most communications activity.
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I first visited the Philippines when I was 29. I thought I would feel at home there, but I felt more out of place than I did in the U.S. I discovered I was more American than Filipino. It was shattering because I never felt quite at home in the U.S., either.
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Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.
