Darrell Royal Quotes
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
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I think I've definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw 'Titanic' in the theater, I got the bug.
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In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.
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Everything has a place and time.
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I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A. I was afraid of having to start all over again, which happened. But we got lucky.
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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
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After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.
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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
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Wie zou weten, hoeveel er in een bakvisziel omgaat?
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It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the 'dark horse' in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
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It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.
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I always had an acting crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. He just wowed me all the time. He was just quietly so impressive and so private.
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While we were being bombed in Dresden, sitting in a cellar with our arms over our heads in case the ceiling fell, one slider said as though he were a duchess in a mansion on a cold and rainy night, 'I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight.' Nobody laughed, but we were still all glad he said it.
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I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?
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I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
