Kirk Douglas Quotes
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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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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The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.
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I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.
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I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
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I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
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I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I'm not, like, a brat.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
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Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will.
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Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.
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Other animals have hearts that feel, eyes that see, and families to care for, just like you and me.
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Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.
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Acting is a youthful profession.
