Doug Larson Quotes
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
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You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
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A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last.
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I was so sad that 'Best Friends Forever' got cancelled. I thought it was a great show and NBC didn't give it a chance. I'm a big fan of the NBC comedies.
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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
