Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.
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Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!
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I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.
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You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
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In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
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I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
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We must prepare ourselves to assist the missionaries in finding those of our Heavenly Father's children who will embrace the message of the Restoration.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.
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I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that make the landscape into a rumpled green counterpane. I thought I would never have such powerful feelings again. I thought I would live through the rest of my life having experiences, and thoughts, but I never thought I would again feel deeply-- I was convinced that my wounds had healed and become thick scars, essentially numb.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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Being on stage a lot is quite physical.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.
