Charlotte Erickson Quotes
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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The world is always terrible.
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Bald is the new black!
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
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I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a very large plate of beef in red wine sauce.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.
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I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
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You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.
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The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
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I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.
