Douglas Fairbanks Quotes
Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile.
Quotes to Explore
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.
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The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.
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I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
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Debt collectors like to play on your emotions because they think you'll give in and do something you can't really afford to do. Most of them don't care about you or your situation as long as they get some money.
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Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world.
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Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile.
