Charles Ludlam (Charles Braun Ludlam) Quotes
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
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I've always wanted to make a record.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.
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We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.
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Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.
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My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.
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The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.
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Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.
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There is no better designer than nature.
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One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.
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Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?
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Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.
