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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• Definition
• Artifice
• Not Life

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• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

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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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• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

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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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• China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'

  

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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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• When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

  

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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.

  

  Samantha Bee
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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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• You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!

  

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• A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me. I don't give a damn for the group, the community, the masses, and so forth.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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• Art serves to establish community. It links us with others and with the things around us, in a shared vision and effort.

  

  Gerhard Richter
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• Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.

  

  Andrew James Hartley
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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