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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We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.
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Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.
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After about 25 fights you don't always have to keep going to the bathroom before the fight.
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I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.
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...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.
