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Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.
Charlie Chaplin
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Charlie Chaplin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 16
Died: 1977
Died: December 25
Actor
Autobiographer
Comedian
Composer
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
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Film Score Composer
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London
England
Charles Spencer Chaplin
Charles Chaplin
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Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
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The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.
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Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.
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The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!
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In the end, everything is a gag.
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Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.
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Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
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I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
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Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [...] You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
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I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.
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This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
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Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice
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Imagination means nothing without doing.
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In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude.
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By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.
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Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.
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Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
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My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
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Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.
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