Douglas Sirk Quotes
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
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You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
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Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.
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You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'
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Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
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I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.
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My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
