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 personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.
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I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.
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Acting is a youthful profession.
