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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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.
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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
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I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit.
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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.
