Charles Bock Quotes
What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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I don't get my ideas from reading other people.
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There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.
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I'm used to the fact that the world views movie actors as personalities. I'm in the extremely fortunate position of making a living at something I'm passionate about. It's all about choices. By the nature of what I do, I make a choice. I invite them in.
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I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.
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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.
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What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.
