Will Durant Quotes
Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
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Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
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If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Letting someone down is not criminal action.
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Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.
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I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
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You've got to really enable the next generation of start-ups.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.
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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
