Charles Reznikoff Quotes
When I was four years old my mother led me to the park. The spring sunshine was not too warm. The street was almost empty. The witch in my fairy-book came walking along. She stooped to fish some mouldy grapes out of the gutter.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
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When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.
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My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn’t think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.
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When I was four years old my mother led me to the park. The spring sunshine was not too warm. The street was almost empty. The witch in my fairy-book came walking along. She stooped to fish some mouldy grapes out of the gutter.
