Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes
You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.Charles Durning
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
Yo-Yo Ma -
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
Pat Buchanan -
All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
Park Chan-wook -
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Calvin Coolidge -
Mark Twain cannot be defined.
Hal Holbrook
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You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
Camille Claudel -
Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
Ted Rall -
I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.
G. Willow Wilson -
I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
Rachel McAdams -
If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
Dan Barber -
Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
Beanie Sigel
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I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term 'fashion' is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.
Narciso Rodriguez -
I like to question cultural biases wherever I go, and I question Islamophobia as much as I question anti-western sentiment because I think all extremist ideologies are very similar.
Elif Safak -
I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that.
Bella Thorne -
Few people know that President Obama has used drone attacks many times more than Bush ever did. Obama's off the charts in terms of drone attack.
Jonathan Turley -
I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.
Ariana Grande -
I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
Kevin Spacey
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I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.
Laura Benanti -
When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.
Helmut Lang -
I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
Richard Pryor -
You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.
Charles Durning