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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I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
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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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I would love to work on a Bond film.
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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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If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
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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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It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.
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Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the c, guides the surgeon, and it often victoriously applies the power of the spirit when all seems lost. It proves, over and over again, the truth of Tennyson's words: "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." Prayer puts us on God's side. It aligns us with life's higher purposes, aims, and ideals. Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.
