Richard Pryor Quotes
The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
Quotes to Explore
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
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If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
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I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
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A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
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I can't imagine dating someone famous. I try to stay away from that as much as I can.
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I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.
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I become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.
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I think if you don't enjoy something, it's not sustainable.
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I feel like if you feel good about a script, and you feel confident about your ability to direct and just capture it right, it's all just, really, really in your favor there.
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Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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I'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me that such and such a scene or story is comical, I tend to gape. I did not intend comedy - ever, as far as I know. It's probably all a mistake. I am essentially a lugubrious writer. Ha ha!
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The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
