Donald Sutherland Quotes
I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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A laugh is a terrible weapon.
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.
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A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.
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I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.
