Charles de Lint Quotes
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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I carry a lot of feminine energy as well as masculine energy, and that's the hit that people are getting. That vulnerable thing is not what we assume with black males. You get it, and then they cease to become scary. They become human. You cease to have a bogeyman.
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I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.
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I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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I was so nervous about 'Kingsman,' I can't tell you, because when you do things different and fresh and fun and crazy, you don't know how people are going to react.
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When you’re invisible, no one can see that you’re different.
