Rip Torn Quotes

I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

Rip Torn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1931

Topics

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When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

Maya Angelou

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If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject.

John Jay Hooker

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You learn by mistakes. When you make those mistakes, you try not to make them the third time or the second time. You learn from them. Sometimes you learn the hard way. In football, if I held on to the ball too long, I got my butt kicked. You better make that decision quicker.

Ron Jaworski

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I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

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We all wake up at our leisure; the kids know not to wake me up. Then we make breakfast or go out to eat with family. There is usually a sporting event or two to watch!

Josie Bissett

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All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

Chris Chocola

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The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for.

Christopher Paolini

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I have a very healthy dose of scepticism towards what identity is and what personas are, maybe because of my life journey. Identity is something so malleable.

Arca

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For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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