Charlie Quotes - Page 7

• My first favourite book was Are You My Mother? A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure.

  Rick Yancey

  Mother, Book, Bird

  "Quickfire interview: Rick Yancey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.

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• I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.

  David Mazzucchelli

  Eye, Years, Tears

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• If you're looking for an author who can deliver high-octane thrills every time and a character who is NOT to be messed with, you've found them. Zoë Sharp and Charlie Fox both kick ass.

  Mark Billingham

  Character, Foxes, Kick Ass

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• He [Charlie Chaplin] was always playing as if it were to the camera, if you've seen the live shots of him when he's going to an opening night or something like that. And the skills that he had were beyond my ability to throw together. You just couldn't really compete with him. He was too athletic at that.

  Eddie Izzard

  Night, Skills, Athletic

  "Eddie Izzard on Powers, playing piano at Live 8, and having fun on Hannibal". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2015.

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• Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

  Joe Lovano

  Jazz, Jazz Music, Dance Floor

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• The nation of Dubai banned the movie Charlie's Angles because it's "offensive to the religion of Islam." Apparently, the religion of Islam is offended by anything without a plot.

  Jon Stewart

  Movie, Dubai, Religion Of Islam

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• I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

  Woody Allen

  Basketball, Baseball, Sleep

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Who says there can't be more than one very attractive woman on a show without it becoming CHARLIE'S ANGELS?

  Loni Anderson

  Angel, Becoming, Attractive

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• For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

  Carol Tavris

  Direct Action, Differences, Knowing

  Carol Tavris (1989). “Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• For Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he came to me and said, "I want to do everything that's in the book, and as much more as you need, so that it all makes sense." I was like, "Okay!" And then, I would pitch back to him my love for Charlie Bucket's family and how lucky Charlie was, and that I felt so bad for Willy Wonka, shut up in his factory, all alone with these crazy Oompa Loompas.

  John August

  Crazy, Book, Chocolate

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a theater actress and I thrive on working with other actors, and you can't be even a smidge bad, when you're acting with Charlie [Sheen]. He's just so natural, so present and so good that you have to step up to his level, or else.

  Daniela Bobadilla

  Acting, Actors, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• Charming is the perfect word to describe Charlie [Sheen]. That's why people love him. He's so personable. They can relate to him. He made mistakes and he knows it. Everyone is like that. That is why he has so many fans.

  Daniela Bobadilla

  Mistake, People, Perfect

  Source: collider.com

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• I regard the amount of brainpower going into money management as a national scandal. When some idiot would get rich, they'd say, 'Well, old Charlie was out in the field playing the big brass tuba on the day it rained gold.' A lot of people have become rich lately who were playing the tuba on the day it rained gold.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Gold, Tubas

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• I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Thinking, Office

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• The result is a twitching convulsion of vicious drivel passing itself off as a movie, which can be best appreciated by the kind of people who dig Showgirls, the Saw franchise and Spike Jonze-Charlie Kaufman flicks.

  Rex Reed

  People, Saws, Kind

  "Going to the Dogs: With 'Seven Psychopaths,' The Once-Masterful McDonagh Stays Bent on an Ill-Advised Hiatus from Theater" by Rex Reed, observer.com. October 9, 2012.

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• I pride myself on being the guy who can do Def Comedy Jam and Charlie Rose. And do well on both.

  Chris Rock

  Pride, Rose, Guy

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• Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was one of the very first funny men. It's like the original violins were made in Cremona and there's never been any better since. Sometimes the best come right off the bat.

  Emo Philips

  Laughter, Artist, Men

  Interview with Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.

  Josh Gad

  Growing Up, Mean, Kids

  Interview with Christina Couch, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2011.

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• I think Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen have a lot of chemistry between them.

  April Bowlby

  Thinking, Chemistry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

  Chevy Chase

  Film, Chaplin

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• Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Writing, Horror, Marlowe

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.111, Penguin

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• If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed.

  Chuck Lorre

  Ifs

  "Who Is Chuck Lorre, the Mysterious Producer Who Enraged Charlie Sheen?" by Meagan Murphy, www.foxnews.com. March 2, 2011.

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• There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and that's what the individual investor should do.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Mean, Night

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• After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Charlie Hebdo, Islam, Trying

  "How to Answer the Paris Terror Attack". Article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.metafilter.com. January 7, 2015.

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• Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.

  Tim Cahill

  Ponies, Layers, Firsts

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