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.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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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.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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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.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
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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.
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What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
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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.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
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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.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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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.
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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.
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Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more- also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.
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My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass.
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I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.
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Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.
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Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
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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.
