Charles E. Burchfield Quotes
Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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I never expected to make a lot of money from music.
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It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.
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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
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Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
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I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.
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Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?
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Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.
