Richard Pryor Quotes
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
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The majority of my work is about preparation.
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Lipstick is iconic. It's the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can define a season. It makes me feel more 'done'. I wear a beige lip in the day, but red when I'm going somewhere - it makes that transition from day to night. I just slick it on; I don't bother with lipliner.
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You need to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on film. You must resist the temptation to do too much.
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If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.
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It might seem at first surprising that when I studied women and men talking at work, I found that women 'interrupted' each other more often than men did - when they were in all-women conversations.
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It's not about someone making a difference on their own; it's about everybody pulling together to make a difference.
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The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion.
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It took them a while to catch on that Batman would be the greatest.
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TV is the best babysitter.
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I would love to go to England.
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We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.
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I've always been fairly confident in my acting.
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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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Fear is nothing but idleness of the will.
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Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.
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There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.
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Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
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Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.
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I'm immature.
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I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.
