Charles D'Ambrosio (Charles Anthony D'Ambrosio, Jr) Quotes
I like the desperado aspect of essays, the free lance, that mercenary kind of thing, so I just do it, without asking anyone's permission. I've never written a query letter, I don't pitch pieces, I have no market in mind, I don't spend any time trying to figure out where I might fit in.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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The problem with faith, is that it really is a conversation stopper. Faith is a declaration of immunity to the powers of conversation. It is a reason, why you do not have to give reasons, for what you believe.
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The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing: we were entirely among ourselves. A small Jewish republic...
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Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
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As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.
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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.
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I like the desperado aspect of essays, the free lance, that mercenary kind of thing, so I just do it, without asking anyone's permission. I've never written a query letter, I don't pitch pieces, I have no market in mind, I don't spend any time trying to figure out where I might fit in.
