Richard Clare Danko Quotes
I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.
