Charles Ludlam (Charles Braun Ludlam) Quotes

If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.

Charles Ludlam

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• I listen to 'deep dish house'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • House
  • Deep
  • Listen

• The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.

  

  Zacharia Wahls
  • Character
  • Parents
  • Zero

• People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

  

  Will Self
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dramatic

• You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Stage
  • Dialogue
  • Amount

• The fact that Hillary Clinton is pushing for paid family leave and also for affordable childcare will make a huge difference for working women who aren't as lucky as I am to be able to hire a nanny when I work. And who aren't lucky enough to necessarily have their husbands be able to take off work. That will make a huge, huge difference.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Difference
  • Pushing
  • Childcare

• On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.

  

  Rumi
  • World
  • Day
  • Wind

• It's what runners do. We keep on keeping on.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Runners
  • Keeping On

• We don’t always do the right things, you know? We don’t always say the right things.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Right Things

• The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

  

  George Q. Cannon
  • Family
  • Education
  • Woman

• People need to understand; I may have been very innocent. Didn't understand the devil. Didn't understand any of that. You can only push a child so far. You have laws; number one. And number two; I had been doing this so long, I could say now that I don't want to do something. But after a certain while, they knew when they had pushed their luck with me, and that it was time to, you know, maybe back off.

  

  Linda Blair
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I've been fortunate in that I've been able to have that balance as an actress to be able to do the wild, fun action movies and also be allowed to do the dramas. Hopefully, if I'm able to keep that balance, I'd love to always try to do both.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Action

• It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Regret
  • Christ
  • Habits

• If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.

  

  Charles Ludlam
  • Ideals
  • Lows
  • Mockery