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.

Charles L. Grant

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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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• 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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• I'd never say I'll never have a facelift, but I'm way too scared of looking like a different person. I have no philosophical or political position on plastic surgery; I just don't want to look crazy. And I don't like not being able to tell how old someone is: It's creepy.

  

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• Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.

  

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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.

  

  Charles L. Grant
  • Art
  • Definition
  • Artifice