Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them.
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The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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'They wouldn't fire me. Even the salesmen liked me. They were robbing the boss out the back door but I didn't say anything. That was their little game. It didn't interest me. I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.'
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.
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I've known Carolyn [Maloney] for years, by the way. I knew her when she was on the City Council and knew her when she was - when she was running, and we endorsed her very early when she ran for Congress, yet I didn't know some of the stories in here of herself and her struggle, and - and she makes a very - you know, it's - it pulls your heart as well as - but it's very practical.
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One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
