Richard Pryor Quotes
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.
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Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.
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I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.
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When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.
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There's different kinds of improv. There's Second City improv where you try to slowly build a nice sketch. There's stuff you do in college coffee houses where you just go joke, joke, joke. Bring another funny character with a funny hat on his head. Christopher Guest is more the line of trying to get a story out.
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I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.
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My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.'
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It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.
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You have to be so honest in comedy.
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There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.
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I don't know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of the daybreak in my breast.
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There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.
