Jack Kirby Quotes
Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.
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The world is always in movement.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.
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I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.
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Elvis was sincere, and he was - he was so loyal. And he was so homespun. He loved his mother, he loved America. You know, he loved his fellow man. He had a great humanitarian philanthropic sense.
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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
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Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.
