Charles Ghigna Quotes
I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives from the inside out. I write humorous poems to tickle the funny bone of their imaginations.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.
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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
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And the hooded clouds, like friars,Tell their beads in drops of rain.
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I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.
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I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.
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When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.'
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I'm not religious in any way but I am very spiritual. Music is holy to me. It's like my religion. It's sacred. It feels unearthly; it makes me feel a way that talking to somebody doesn't make me feel, it's something you can't even wrap your head around. It's not abstract, you can't even grasp it - that's what music is to me.
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America is the only developed nation in the world with no guaranteed paid leave of any kind. That means we're leaving a whole lot of talent on the sidelines.
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I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives from the inside out. I write humorous poems to tickle the funny bone of their imaginations.
