Charles Bock Quotes
The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.
Quotes to Explore
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Women just love to shop.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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Photography is an accident.
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannises over the body. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.
