Doug Henning Quotes
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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As mainstream religious leaders of different faiths get together, it strengthens the voice of moderation.
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Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.
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It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.
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Democrats hate Democrats most of all.
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When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
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Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.
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I'm often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don't have that problem.
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When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.
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As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.
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I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.
