Richard Widmark Quotes
Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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I will run against anybody.
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I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'
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All of us are sympathetic to the class-size amendment. But each university has classroom needs, too.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
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Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
