Darrell Royal Quotes
The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
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The stuff that I learned on 'Sons,' the education of how to tell stories, was part of that mythology. It's hard to look at it and go, 'Oh, if I knew this, I would have done it this way,' because the fact is I like to think that all that sort of unraveled as it was supposed to.
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I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
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That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.
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If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
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What’s wrong with being naked?
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The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
