Charles de Lint Quotes
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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I'm far from being a homosexual.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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If you work on something you can finish in a day or two, you can expect to have a nice feeling of accomplishment fairly soon. If the reward is indefinitely far in the future, it seems less real.
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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
