Charles S. Dutton quote: "America can't afford to lose writers of this caliber because they just don't come along that often. The worst of it is that there were probably 10 more plays, but the best of it is that he promised and delivered."

I chose him because he really knew how to box for real. Omar is so good that several times boxing tr...
CHARLES S. DUTTON

Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great...
CHARLES S. DUTTON

With this, I'm holding up a mirror to society, and every aspect of the story actually has a historic...
CHARLES S. DUTTON

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could...
CHARLES S. DUTTON

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.
CHARLES S. DUTTON

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.
CHARLES S. DUTTON

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commerci...
CHARLES S. DUTTON

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest...
CHARLES S. DUTTON

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.
CHARLES S. DUTTON

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.
CHARLES S. DUTTON

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.
CHARLES S. DUTTON

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy ...
CHARLES S. DUTTON

The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and ...
CHARLES S. DUTTON

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the ...
CHARLES S. DUTTON

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't an...
CHARLES S. DUTTON

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to...
CHARLES S. DUTTON

For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for...
CHARLES S. DUTTON

I left thinking August's lost his mind, ... When I read 'The Piano Lesson,' I realized it encompasse...
CHARLES DUTTON

What's it about,' I asked, and he said, 'It's about a guy selling watermelons,' ... I said, 'You're ...
CHARLES DUTTON

I want to think he made me a better person.
CHARLES DUTTON

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner and you know what I'll do to that, ... Fenc...
CHARLES DUTTON

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to lea...
CHARLES DUTTON

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing,
CHARLES DUTTON

I re-read all the plays. I'm not sad. He was out of this world—so common, regular, ordinary, but c...
CHARLES DUTTON

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing. And you've got hardly a speck of athletic ability ... ...
CHARLES DUTTON

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner, and you know what I'll do to that, ... Fen...
CHARLES DUTTON

When I read 'The Piano Lesson,' I realized it encompassed the entire African-American experience, .....
CHARLES DUTTON

I re-read all the plays. I'm not sad. He was out of this worldso common, regular, ordinary, but ca...
CHARLES DUTTON

'What's it about,' I asked, and he said, 'It's about a guy selling watermelons,' ... I said, 'You'r...
CHARLES DUTTON

You have to give Gilford credit. They certainly capitalized on our mistakes.
AMY DUTTON

We had some young guys step up. I think this gave us some confidence. Now we feel like we can play w...
AMY DUTTON

We've played three games and in my opinion we've played about 40 minutes of good soccer. I guess the...
AMY DUTTON

I look at it and decide, 'You need to be a bunny rabbit' or whatever.
LIN DUTTON

They went up there, and then they ran down here, and they went up the big evergreen, and then they w...
LIN DUTTON

I've always done a lot of different things - quilts and making dolls and stained glass - but this ha...
LIN DUTTON

We're always looking to push the ball up the floor. We try to get in our lanes and run the floor.
LISA DUTTON

People looked forward to it because they wanted to come to his birthday. There was that kind of cama...
DIANA DUTTON

Attacking genius and passion as immoral , the ? cries "how dare they?" and answers with its own ques...
CHRISTOPHER DUTTON

Last year we finished sixth in the league. It was our best finish since joining the league in 2000.
MIKE DUTTON

Our customers have expressed interest in being able to choose renewable resources and I'm pleased th...
CHRIS DUTTON

He's been great. He called right back and asked what he could do.
CAROL DUTTON

He was hit hard by the hurricane. He was retired and now he is working again because of this.
CAROL DUTTON

We'll find out what they have in mind for us when we get there. I think there's a lot of need.
CAROL DUTTON

Чтобы выяснить это, Рэчман выбрал несколько опытных вз...
KEVIN DUTTON

He was well liked and well respected by everyone because he was kind to everyone and he listened.
DIANA DUTTON

I haven't gotten anything in writing.
DIANA DUTTON

Джон Маултон, один из самых успешных венчурных капитал...
KEVIN DUTTON

Deneyime Açıklık, Sorumluluk, Dışadönüklük, Uyumluluk ve Nevrotiklik özelliklerinin insano�...
KEVIN DUTTON

I had rather be a meteor, single, alone.'

Plus Paris itself was noisome. Even with its gl...
DANIELLE DUTTON

She was reading Francis Godwin's Man in the Moone--its man was borne into space in a carriage...
DANIELLE DUTTON

Off come her skirts and petticoats, her lace cuffs and collar, her shoes and whalebone stay, until s...
DANIELLE DUTTON

One night, the Duarte girl, sang poems set to music in a voice so clear I felt my soul rise up insid...
DANIELLE DUTTON

It's an endless journey. You never really get to play everything. Maybe in a hundred years' time.
LAWRENCE DUTTON

There are real problems with those pieces. I mean everything that Brahms writes seems to be 'bigger'...
LAWRENCE DUTTON

We're in a beautiful spot right now.
LAWRENCE DUTTON

We always knew where their shooters were so we could close in on them.
LISA DUTTON

It's going to be a battle. We're a team that's being overlooked, and that's okay right now.
LIBBY DUTTON

Justin had the opportunity and, boy, did he run with it. Kids have stepped up when they were asked t...
LIBBY DUTTON

He played intense from start to finish. He stepped up, played with courage, intensity and leadership...
LIBBY DUTTON

My kids used to tease me and say the neighbor kids probably called me 'the crazy gourd lady' because...
LIN DUTTON

I don't like to waste things. It's kind of recycled gourds. I'd rather do a big (gourd), it's more a...
LIN DUTTON

An utter success,' her stepdaughters confided to
Margaret as they prepared to take their leave...
DANIELLE DUTTON

We have appointed a new team that have completely revamped and overhauled the [home] ranges but our ...
PHIL DUTTON

Leaders don't force people to follow-they invite them on a journey. Harold S. Hulbert -Charles S. L...
CHARLES S. LAUER

There are ways we can do that. We have the capability of monitoring in real time under certain circu...
CHARLES S. PHALEN

Certainly multiple trips could invite scrutiny.
CHARLES S. PHALEN

When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit...
CHARLES S. RICKETTS

We'll never get to where we need to go with ACS.
CHARLES S. PHALEN

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES

Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for ano...
S. ANSKY

When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppres...
S. ANSKY

A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is tor...
S. ANSKY

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewi...
S. ANSKY

Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.
BREANNA S

When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.
NESHIALY S.

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.
S. DUBAY

I have just about all I can take of myself.
S. BEHRMAN

So? There's two of us and one of you, and whenever we feel like it, we can be three. That's love too...
S. DORA

When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it.
NESHIALY S.

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things ...
S. GUDDER

To succeed, your "why you do it" must be strong enough to get you out of bed early in the morning.
MICHAEL S.

If we always live
in constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
r...
S. TARR

But it is the yogic path to be introspective, and to be the best person one can be.
S. IYENGAR

People don't care about price, if you have a great story and proposition, they'll buy your product.
MICHAEL S.

If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream?
S. BALARAM

Think of playing an instrument. When first picking up a new piece of music, a musician hammers out t...
S. CICCARELLI

Life travels steeper when we always LACK something and try make up with it
VIGNESH S

Being free in Jesus is a luxury. If you really desire to be free in Jesus, you’re going to have to...
GODISNOW1'S

...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to...
S. OHNO

As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
S. OHNO

உலகம் முழுவதும் வீடுகள் இருக்கின்றன...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN

வெற்றி பெற்றவனை விட தோற்றவனிடம் தான்...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN

Whenever you're late, make others wonder if they can handle your success if you came on time
VIGNESH S

Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor
VIGNESH S

If God never gave me one more thing in my life, then you, right now, would be enough. You are my Day...
S. KHUBIAR

Our goals are to find an easy way to find high risk (women) and to make the counseling process more ...
S. HUGHES

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
GEORGE S. PATTON

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
HARRY S TRUMAN

'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wo...
C. S. LEWIS

We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives a...
S. TRUETT CATHY

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S TRUMAN

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of th...
ULYSSES S. GRANT

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
C. S. LEWIS

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

We don't find it tough to sell gold; people love to buy jewelry. The only way to make your wife,...
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

I don't calculate my net worth.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

Be as transparent as you can in your trade. The big thing in life is trust.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
S. TRUETT CATHY

We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
S. TRUETT CATHY

I cook chicken for a living.
S. TRUETT CATHY

I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our var...
S. TRUETT CATHY

If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of...
S. TRUETT CATHY

I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven...
S. TRUETT CATHY

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brou...
S. TRUETT CATHY

I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local communit...
S. TRUETT CATHY

I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
S. TRUETT CATHY

Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here.
S. TRUETT CATHY

If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
S. TRUETT CATHY

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize yo...
S. TRUETT CATHY

I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can...
S. TRUETT CATHY

It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, ...
S. TRUETT CATHY

I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and prioriti...
S. TRUETT CATHY

The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and ...
S. TRUETT CATHY

Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
S. TRUETT CATHY

I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
S. TRUETT CATHY

You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on...
S. TRUETT CATHY

Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.
S. TRUETT CATHY

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things...
S. TRUETT CATHY

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
S. TRUETT CATHY

We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, ...
S. TRUETT CATHY

Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our ti...
S. TRUETT CATHY

Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product.
S. TRUETT CATHY

I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
S. T. JOSHI

You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
S. T. JOSHI

My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
S. T. JOSHI

I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and ...
S. ROBSON WALTON

I was small but slow as a college tackle.
S. ROBSON WALTON

I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs -...
S. ROBSON WALTON

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep ...
S. ROBSON WALTON

In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the w...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically e...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to ol...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than oth...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that pe...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related d...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age y...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the ...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our p...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures f...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people un...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it does...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful th...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the grea...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody e...
S. J. ROZAN

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest...
S. J. ROZAN

Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been exp...
S. J. ROZAN

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in,...
S. J. ROZAN

One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails...
S. J. ROZAN

The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People...
S. J. ROZAN

The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent...
S. J. ROZAN

Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
S. J. ROZAN

When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as...
S. J. ROZAN

What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you op...
S. J. ROZAN

Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shad...
S. J. ROZAN

I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
S. J. PERELMAN

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started...
S. J. PERELMAN

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
S. J. PERELMAN

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. PERELMAN

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are ...
S. J. PERELMAN

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
S. I. HAYAKAWA

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives an...
S. I. HAYAKAWA

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
S. I. HAYAKAWA

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or...
S. I. HAYAKAWA

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're us...
S. I. HAYAKAWA

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an...
S. I. HAYAKAWA

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will...
S. I. HAYAKAWA

So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
S. I. HAYAKAWA

When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat...
S. E. HINTON

The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the un...
S. E. HINTON

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the secon...
S. E. HINTON

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
S. E. HINTON

Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o...
S. E. HINTON

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. HINTON

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina...
S. E. HINTON

How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r...
S. E. HINTON

More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma....
S. E. HINTON

My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
S. E. HINTON

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
S. E. HINTON

America can't afford to lose writers of this caliber because they just don't come along that often. The worst of it is that there were probably 10 more plays, but the best of it is that he promised and delivered.

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Charles S. Dutton

America can't afford to lose writers of this caliber because they just don't come along that often. The worst of it is that there were probably 10 more plays, but the best of it is that he promised and delivered.

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