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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You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.
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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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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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I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.
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One can only improvise what one knows.
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The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy.
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I was a total bad girl growing up.
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I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.
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I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
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Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.
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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.
