Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

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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.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Facts
  • Fact
  • Deeper

• 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.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Christian
  • Difference

• 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.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Age
  • Famous

• 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.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Life
  • Important
  • Person

• Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Couple

• 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.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • May
  • Progress
  • Helpful

• 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.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Silly
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Faith
  • End
  • Understand

• The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • History
  • Organization

• An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Why
  • Know
  • Tomorrow

• I love '80s horror.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Horror

• My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro '50s pin-ups, floral, like hippies, like anything feminine, and like flirty.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Style
  • Personal
  • Feminine

• A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Understand
  • Misanthrope

• I find that most of wake up day, not because we genuinely 'want' to, but because we have to. We have to be somewhere, do something, answer to or take care of someone. But when you shift your intention and create a genuine desire - event enthusiasm - for waking up in the morning, your entire life changes.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Up
  • Desire

• I'm such a fan girl when it comes to movies, TV and sci-fi, sometimes I can't believe I actually get to be in them.

  

  Rebecca Mader
  • Believe
  • Sometimes

• Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Lead

• I don't see how any African-American, with any inkling of history, can say that you don't have the right to live your life how you want to live your life. No one should be telling you who you should love, no one should be telling you who you should be spending the rest of your life with. When we start talking about equality, and everybody being treated equally, I don't want to know an African-American who will say everybody doesn't deserve equality.

  

  Michael Irvin
  • Life
  • History
  • Start

• The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Truth

• Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Sometimes
  • Succeed