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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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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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 will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
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I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.
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Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?
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One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.
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I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
