Richard Masur Quotes
I'm grateful I got the opportunity to do it because I know this now. If anybody ever asked me to do a daytime show again I would go no, no. I can't do that. Not because it's beneath me. It's above me. It's beyond my resources.
Quotes to Explore
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
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If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the movie industry.
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I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
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Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion.
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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
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I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
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I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.
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As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
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You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race
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Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.
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I'm grateful I got the opportunity to do it because I know this now. If anybody ever asked me to do a daytime show again I would go no, no. I can't do that. Not because it's beneath me. It's above me. It's beyond my resources.
