Richard Widmark Quotes
A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!
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All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.
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We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.
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I didn't really feel like I knew who I was until I was 24.
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I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.
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The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
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I've really been working on the emotional and internal issues that made me eat in the first place. It's been a real journey.
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I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.
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I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.
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To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
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My first introduction to pop music was probably the Osmonds, the Jackson 5, the BeeGees... Then the Beatles eventually. My father was pretty specific about what we listened to early on.
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There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There were other really large cities that had no major league teams, but at least they had college football.
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I have really no desire to go back into management ever again.
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A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.
