Redd Foxx Quotes
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.
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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
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You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.
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We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.
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Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
