Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes

There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.

Charles Durning

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• You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

  

  Larry King
  • Why
  • Question
  • Questions

• The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Writing
  • Woman
  • Story

• When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Moments

• I can't touch Simon anymore.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Touch
  • Anymore
  • Simon

• I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Appreciate
  • Evolution

• On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Think
  • Change

• There are, in fact, very few organic zinc compounds; only the first members of the series, which correspond to the simplest organic radicals, can be prepared without too much difficulty, but they have the disadvantage of being spontaneously inflammable in air and are consequently very dangerous to handle.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • Air
  • First
  • Too Much

• You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Fighting

• My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Time
  • Music
  • Father

• Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Believe
  • Knowledge
  • Always

• I felt uncomfortable in cliques.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Felt
  • Uncomfortable
  • Cliques

• You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Time
  • Long
  • Moment

• I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Family
  • Home
  • Cats

• I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Doing
  • Find
  • Relationships

• I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Want
  • Questions

• about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Good

• You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Feeling
  • Balance

• But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

  

  Don Cheadle

• If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Business
  • Want
  • Soldier

• But it is interesting to notice that, while the soul is the meeting-point of the elements of our being in this present life, the spirit will be the ruling power in our resurrection state. For the first man Adam was made a living soul, but the last Adam a quickening Spirit;[151] and that which is sown a psychic body is raised a spiritual body.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Soul
  • Interesting
  • Elements

• Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Story
  • Name

• We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • God
  • Friends

• Throughout our lives, we develop our character consciously or unconsciously. In your journey to a life beyond amazing, you'll learn to develop your character in ways that bring remarkable rewards.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Life
  • Character
  • Amazing

• There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Soul
  • Want
  • Knows