Charles Barkley Quotes
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.
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If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.
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My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock... whatever you want to call it is OK with me.
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I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.
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No one is beat till he quits,No one is through till he stops,No matter how hard Failure hits,No matter how often he drops,A fellow's not down till he liesIn the dust and refuses to rise.
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'You mean,' said ‘Che Ramli, 'he is a member of the tribe of the prophet Lot.'
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A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.
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That's the unpredictable part, and that's what worries every coach: Protect the football. That's why, when you go into a ballgame, you may be favored, but there's no guarantee you're going to win it.
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It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.
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Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
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We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?
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I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.
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'I do understand. I understand that you are offered a loveliness and you vomit on it, that you have the gift of love given you such as few men have ever known and you throw on it the acid of your pride, your ugly twisted sense of importance.'
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Not only is it OK for a woman to write about a tough guy, but it might even help sell him.
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I think the one that really happened was Fever with Little Willie John. But, it only went so far because Peggy Lee jumped on it.
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In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
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Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him.
