Richard Widmark Quotes
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To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.
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For me, Warhol made so much sense.
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The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.
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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.
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I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
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I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.
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I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries.
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I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
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We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories.
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You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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I've had a very interesting life. There are ways of handling the complexities. I'm willing to take on the responsibilities as a father, as a producer, as an actor; and I enjoy that. I've always been changing and evolving and growing. There's no pinnacle of power where you can sit back and relax.
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I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential.
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I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.
