David Ogden Stiers Quotes
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.
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The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.
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Growing up, I saw my mother cry exactly once. The morning of her brother's funeral. One long tear ran down her cheek through her make up until she caught it near her mouth and patted it dry with a tissue she pulled from inside her sleeve.
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Not long ago, women in Afghanistan were required by Taliban leadership to be covered nearly head-to-toe and were barely allowed to leave the home; that young Afghan women today are not only accessing an education but are able to meet young people from around the world and cheer on a robot of their own making is something beautiful.
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Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.
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I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.
