Charles Bass Quotes
U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.
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He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
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But I've consistently worked for 10 years.
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We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
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All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.
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We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.
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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.
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Kauai is kind of my place where I go to get centered. It's always my place to come back and feel normal again.
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In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
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U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.
