Wayne Newton Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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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 don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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Africa is the future.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or violating the laws of society.
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Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?
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All the training at MGM came to be a great help for me on 'Molly Brown.'
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He’s your problem, but what a great problem to have.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
