Charles D'Ambrosio (Charles Anthony D'Ambrosio, Jr) Quotes
What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our future is just as goopy with sentiment as our past. To me, they're the same, both very tempting, and I don't believe in either, although the idealism is probably important.Charles D'Ambrosio
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
Fat Joe -
I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
Lana Turner -
The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
Nazanin Boniadi -
Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
Tammy Duckworth -
I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
Daniel Craig -
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
J. Paul Getty
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
Fareed Zakaria -
A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
Cab Calloway -
The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
Ed Sheeran -
It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
Tammy Baldwin -
The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
Tatiana de Rosnay -
What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
Campbell Newman
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The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn't know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour.
Inbee Park -
An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
Malcolm McDowell -
I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
K. D. Lang -
There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
Kate Middleton -
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Joanne Rowling -
Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.
Zara Larsson
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A fox and a wolf are both canine, both belong to the dog family. Now you take your choice. You going to choose a Northern dog or a Southern dog? Because either dog you choose, I guarantee you’ll still be in the dog house. This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
Malcolm X -
Most bands don't make it past two albums and tours, if that. We pulled it off, and everybody's been happy and cool, but we got to the point where we knew it was time to take a break.
Darrell Lance Abbott -
It was always important to me to make sure Pooh came across as much more than a bear of very little brain. There is an innate wisdom there somewhere.
Jim Broadbent -
If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.
Bob Proctor -
What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our future is just as goopy with sentiment as our past. To me, they're the same, both very tempting, and I don't believe in either, although the idealism is probably important.
Charles D'Ambrosio