Charles de Lint Quotes
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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I love running and I will always run.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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I'd love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg would be really cool, too.
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Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories.
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Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.
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The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.
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I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.
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Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
