Charles Portis Quotes

I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

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• My father was a lawyer.

  

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• Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

  

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• As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

  

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• I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.

  

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• There's more to life than physical and material.

  

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• I married beneath me, all women do.

  

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• I understand those who don't like me.

  

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• Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.

  

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• George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.

  

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• A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.

  

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• Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

  

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• Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

  

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• I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.

  

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• At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

  

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• I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.

  

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• Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

  

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• I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.

  

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• We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.

  

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• To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

  

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• It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.

  

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• I don't mean to be arrogant, but if we're executing our skills there's not a side that can get close to us.

  

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• I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.

  

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• We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.

  

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• I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

  

  Charles Portis
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  • Words
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