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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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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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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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 chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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I grew up a daughter of a United States Marine, a daughter of a man so proud to be an American.
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In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
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Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
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Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engaged and amused, but primarily, I'm interested in other things. It's the texture of any given moment that fascinates me: what is really going on between people or in somebody's mind.
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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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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.
