Charles Wright Quotes
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The world is always terrible.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.
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Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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Of course we had our arguments; we had everything, but at the end of the day, that was still my mother, my confidante - my everything.
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Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
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Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.
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It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
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I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.
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A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
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People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.
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We did not choose to believe that personal choice is the highest human virtue. Rather, we were taught, formed, forced to believe nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen. The irony is that the belief that nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen is a belief that we have not personally chosen! The supermarket and shopping mall have been our school.
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On speaking to Mr. Fox (who had just received the seals as Secretary of State) on the important event of the day, he said certainly things look very well, but he, meaning the King, will dye soon, and that will be best of all.
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The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.