Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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With a lot of my comedic heroes, I'm trying to make sure that, wherever they might have gotten off-track a bit, I've learned that lesson.
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My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
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There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.
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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
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I want to have an empire. I like being in front of the camera, performing - but I would like to get to a place where I'm also executive producing and bringing other people along. People of all different walks of life, highlighting their voices.
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We moved from place to place, and it was hard to adjust to different schools. But we made it.
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I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
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Honestly, the only way Garden State could have been better was if I played every character. I'm awesome.
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We know that people who are born with shorter telomeres than normal also have a shorter lifespan. We know that shorter telomeres can cause a shorter lifespan.
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I was born a character actor.
