Clarence Day Quotes
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.
Quotes to Explore
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.
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Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai.
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As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.
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Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.
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The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.
