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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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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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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I find that the whiter my hair becomes the more ready people are to believe what I say.
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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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Writing, for me at least, takes a lot of concentrated work and effort. It takes dedication and the willingness to do the work even when that feeling of inspiration isn't there at all.
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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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Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.
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There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
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Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
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Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.
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Fear-filled words will defeat you, but faith-filled words will put you over!
