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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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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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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I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!
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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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We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.
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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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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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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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Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.
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I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San Antonio for generations, sometimes seven generations, their families are from there, and they are of Mexican descent, and they've never gone farther than the border.
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If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.
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A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
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Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.
