Kirk Douglas Quotes
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.
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My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.
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So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.
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Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
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I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.
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I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.
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When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.
