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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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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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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And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
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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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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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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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It sounded nothing like the classic "That's all folks" that the character did. So everytime I'm asked to do it - and nine out of ten "Looney Tunes" shows ends with Porky coming out saying "That's all folks" - I'll say to them, which one do you want?
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He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand.
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All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.
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Heaven's harmony is universal love.
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There's always opportunity in the now. If I'm there, I will seize it.
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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.
