Richard Stanley Quotes
The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.
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There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students.
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The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.
