Charles Buxton Quotes
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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I want to make a name for myself.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
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The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.
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A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
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When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.
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Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
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This vain presumption, of understanding everything, can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the understanding of one single thing, thus truly tasting how knowledge is accomplished, would then recognize that of the infinity of other truths, he understands nothing.
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To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.
