Richard Widmark Quotes
I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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A key component of social media is 'following' - and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren't motivated to follow you.
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I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.
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There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.
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People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
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And we shared the story of Korean War veteran Dick Shank, who made it home to that baby boy, and lived out his life - at 84 years old, he was still roller skating - because no war should ever be forgotten and no veteran should ever be overlooked.
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It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!
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The Acropolis – the spaces between the columns – the depth of flutings to touch – the breadth, weight and volume – the magnificence of a single marble bole up-ended -. The passionate warm colour of the marble and all-pervading philosophic proportion and space.
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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful.
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Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.
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You should be watching 'White Collar' because it's a fun, intelligent procedural infused with a lot of great character writing by Jeff Eastin.
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I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.
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Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
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Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
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I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.
