David Herbert Donald Quotes
And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
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Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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My goal is to always be improving my skills.
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When it comes to skin care, I like to keep things simple. I'm not the type of person who runs out to have facials.
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So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level.
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Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good, some are bad, and some are very bad indeed.
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Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.
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And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
