Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes
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Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.
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I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
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I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.
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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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I was born looking older... and I've been aging since I was a teenager.
