Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes
That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
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I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him. I can't do a Donald Trump impersonation, but I can impersonate her.
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I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
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Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
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The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
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In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
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The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.
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I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
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I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.
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My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
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Having worked in the planning field for over 18 years, I think I would be an asset during the upcoming master plan update.
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A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
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We got a great response (after the first episode) from firemen and their wives, but since then, certain firemen feel their sense of honour has been meddled with, ... But it's TV -- we choose highly dramatic situations. You know, because Ally McBeal wore short skirts they weren't saying all female lawyers wear short skirts. So there are some mixed feelings among firemen.
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There's a wide variety of demographics for fans of T.I. now, that you have to do something to satisfy everyone.
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The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.
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I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
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How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?
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That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
