Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
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I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
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The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
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I love '80s horror.
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
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When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I did, slowly doing work in tiny theaters, building relationships with people in the business. It's not a showy story.
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It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone.
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Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.
