Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

Charles Webster Hawthorne

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• I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.

  

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• I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

  

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• From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.

  

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• I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

  

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• I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.

  

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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
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• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

  

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• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

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• No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.

  

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• I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

  

  Laura Linney
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• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

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• I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.

  

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• The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

  

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• My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.

  

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• I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

  

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• It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

  

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• You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.

  

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• You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

  

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• Painting doesn't interest me.. .What I paint is beyond painting.

  

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• My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

  

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• I got into college, and a gentleman gave me a ride in a plane, and he flipped it upside down so we're inverted flying, like it was nothing, and from that moment forward, I fell in love with it. I said, 'I've got to learn this; I've got to do this.'

  

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• Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
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