Charles Capps (Charles Emmitt Capps) Quotes
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
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That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
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I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.
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My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
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I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.
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What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.
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Taking photos is a form of collecting.
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I never had a father, really. My great-grandmother raised me. But I was in this country where I got help from people that were not of my same color. So when I come out of the box, I don't come out of the box as racial. I look for good people, and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings.
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Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.
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I always loved dressing up and telling stories.
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It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is eager to provide the statistics to verify the latter.
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By deciding to live our lives based on solid values and unwavering truth, we can leave a legacy for the young men and boys who want nothing more than to follow in our footsteps.
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When I act, I act with my skin.
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What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!
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Every job, once you get there and start doing it, you approach it the same way. And it does become a serious thing, because it's not easy to do, even something silly. You still have to be professional and perform.
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And where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine.
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Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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Fear-filled words will defeat you, but faith-filled words will put you over!