Stephen R. Donaldson (Stephen Reeder Donaldson) Quotes
This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.
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Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.
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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
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If we can keep you healthy, that is better. If you fall sick, you go to the hospital. Both sides, Philips is present.
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What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.
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This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
