Charles Best Quotes
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.
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The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.
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When I admitted I needed to grow old as a woman, it was a relief.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.
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For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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I've done hundreds of interviews on guns. I'm against people who use guns. I don't like guns, but I've never yelled at anyone.
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Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
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But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.
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You can't build a society without law.
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Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.
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When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.
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After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
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It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.
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