Charles L. Grant Quotes
Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.
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I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.
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It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
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There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
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I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
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A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
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In collecting evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it; viz. from observation on medical the living subject; from examination of the dead; and from experiments upon living animals.
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Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.
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The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.
