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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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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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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We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.
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I believe that miracles happen every day. Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle. If only we can open our eyes, we'll see God's love everywhere.
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I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
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To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
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There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.
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In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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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.
