Richard Pryor Quotes
Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
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A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
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I'm like this wiry freak they pulled out of a bar two months ago and said, 'Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.'
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You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
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The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.
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She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.
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I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.
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We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
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I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.
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It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
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When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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I met an American lady many years ago, much distant. Then I told her about my own difficult experiences and I showed some genuine concern. She responded, "Why are you so concerned about me?" We need more patience. At a fundamental level, we are the same human brothers and sisters. Then forget it. The human mind is very strange. Like that.
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Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.
