Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes
I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
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I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
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The Railway Man was a particularly intense and immersive experience. I definitely got carried away. I lost about 35 pounds. I really was incredibly skinny and also quite unwell while we were filming. It wasn't very healthy. I don't recommend it. But then also doing the torture scenes, the water boarding stuff, there wasn't really any other way just to do it really.
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To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.
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We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in the Protestant faith. Bono's mother was Protestant and his father was Catholic. I was brought up Catholic. U2 are a living example of the kind of unity of faith and tradition that is possible in Northern Ireland.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.
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The only acceptable recipients of money from the GAA are administrators, coaches, security, bar and catering staff, hawkers, programme sellers, pirates, general scavengers, some managers... but no players. Stalin or Fidel Castro would love the way the GAA has and is being run. Even if something is wrong nobody questions it.
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I've had one motto which I've always lived by: dignity, always dignity.
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I don't really pay too much attention to designers, I know what I like and I just try to find it, and I always try to find a cheaper deal because I have a tendency to be a cheapskate sometimes.
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We feel unbeatable at Ewood Park - even when we play away
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I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.
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...our progenitors, the kings of England, have before these times been lords of the English sea on every side...and it would very much grieve us if in this kind of defence our royal honour should be lost.
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It is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time.
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The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.
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There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!
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I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.
