Craig Charles Quotes
Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always admired the humanitarians that I knew growing up in Derry whose influence steered me in the direction of some of the work that I have chosen in the past.
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I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.
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The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.
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Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?
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I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.
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Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
