Charles de Lint Quotes
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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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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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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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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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?
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The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom.
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In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.
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Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.
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But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
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Nothing’s different, but everything has changed.
