Charlotte Bingham Quotes
You've got to wish for something the whole time when you're seventeen. You've got to, or there's nothing to live for. However impossible you've got to think you want it. ... When I couldn't think of a thing I wanted I nearly died.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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The spiritual nature of woman is as little considered as the principles of her historical development. Not only is violence being done to the spirit by a biological misinterpretation and by today's economic trends, but also by the materialistic and fundamental point of view of opposing groups.
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I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, 'Do not weep for me,This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country-I now go back there,I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.'
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Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet is.
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You've got to wish for something the whole time when you're seventeen. You've got to, or there's nothing to live for. However impossible you've got to think you want it. ... When I couldn't think of a thing I wanted I nearly died.
