Richard Pryor Quotes
I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
Quotes to Explore
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.
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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
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If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
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You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.
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Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.
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Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.
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The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn't be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.
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I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.
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I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate. I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behavior was inexcusable and wrong.
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Lists have always implied social order.
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Why can't I prove that advertising can manifest itself in a way that doesn't necessarily mean television ads but changing behaviour and creating a brand out of something that already exists?
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Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!
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Current and former Assistant Attorneys General have a duty to follow all rules related to the practice of law in the state of Texas.
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Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
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I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
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I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
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The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.
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In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.
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I love to tell stories, but the making is less comfortable. I like to be private, and being in the middle of a film crew with the least amount of privacy is the discomfort of shooting a movie. For me, the editing is the great moment when I can bring back ideas and realize the movie for the last time before I hand it to the audience.
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Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three before the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don't.
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I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
