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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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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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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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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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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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
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Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.
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Oh yeah, 'Starship Troopers' was one of the best experiences of my life, and I made some lifelong friends.
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Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.
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Youth re-energises.
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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.
