Charles Portis Quotes
If in four months I could not find Tom Chaney with a mark on his face like banished Cain I would not undertake to advise others how to do it.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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I love running and I will always run.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.
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The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education - today's passport to riches - is unaffordable.
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My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!
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I travel to Chicago a lot. And I've followed Obama through his Senate race and beyond. I found him to be an exceptional candidate who was able to transcend ethnic and racial lines.
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I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
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The actor’s realm is that of the fleeting.
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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.
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I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
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If in four months I could not find Tom Chaney with a mark on his face like banished Cain I would not undertake to advise others how to do it.
