Darrell Royal Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I love storytelling.
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Plumbing is usually boring.
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When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.
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So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.
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I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.
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[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.
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“I dreamed the world was an awful place,” he said. “It wasn’t a dream,” she told him.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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I always have to have mascara; otherwise, I feel like I don't look awake enough. It's like, 'I have eyes now!'
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I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
