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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I grew up in a military family. My father spent 26 years in the Air Force.
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The way I saw it, nobody thought the worse of a man who followed his pecker anywhere it sniffed, like a droopy-faced hound dog led on by his nose. So why a woman did the same should be judged different… well, women always is.
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If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.
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Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing.
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If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.
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When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.
