Charles D'Ambrosio (Charles Anthony D'Ambrosio, Jr) Quotes
My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and wandering and searching - where am I? how'd I get in this mess? what's the point? - right through to the final draft, and sometimes even beyond that - baffled and defeated still, confused as to purpose long after the thing's in print. I never really have a guiding purpose or a point, not at the outset, anyway. It's like life: It's all discovered en route.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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(intro) Well, here we go. This is the first book I've written since 1975, when I was in the 7th grade and wrote Boogers Are Good Eatin'. (p. 1).
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Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange,because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.
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Voluntary birth control methods only work on the people who choose to use ’em. A population check that doesn’t work on everybody doesn’t work at all, because it simply breeds out the ones who use it. The only population check that really works is one that affects everybody, like a limit of space or food.
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Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.
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It must be obvious... that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.
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Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
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Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.
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A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.
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Growing up, I was always chubby. My girlfriends were always running around in two-pieces, and I never felt comfortable to do that.
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Sometimes reality T.V. can be stressful.
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Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
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It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
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I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
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There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.
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My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and wandering and searching - where am I? how'd I get in this mess? what's the point? - right through to the final draft, and sometimes even beyond that - baffled and defeated still, confused as to purpose long after the thing's in print. I never really have a guiding purpose or a point, not at the outset, anyway. It's like life: It's all discovered en route.
