Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes
There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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My life is my message.
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I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
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My life began with Ronnie.
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Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.
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With acting, I didn't get much from it.
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Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
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Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.
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But when she tried to say something, the words always seemed trite and inadequate. Nothing measured up. When any moment might be their last, there was nothing she could ever imagine saying that had the necessary dignity to fill that instant. Silence was better. Silence had its own dignity.
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I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - and many times since.
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You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.
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People believed what I said was what I believed.
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Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There's something great about it as an actor. You have to go to places you'd normally never go and be put in situations you would never be put into. You don't get the opportunity in a lot of films to have this kind of acting. It's an interesting challenge.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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After the war we reassured ourselves that it would be enough to relate a single night in Treblinka, to tell of the cruelty, the senselessness of murder, and the outrage born of indifference: it would be enough to find the right word and the propitious moment to say it, to shake humanity out of its indifference and keep the torturer from torturing ever again.
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Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
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And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do.
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There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.
