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Charles Portis Quotes

A reporter from 'The Times' wanted to arm-wrestle, and as I recall, he kept challenging me. So we went at it, and there was a pop. His arm broke. Very strange. He went into a kind of swoon.

Charles Portis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 28, 1933

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Me Kind Strange Reporter Pop Broke

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

Jennifer Pahlka

You Risk Never Tolerate Innovate

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.

John Malkovich

Look Want Act Would Direct Projects

I find that on most films it's very difficult to have a backlit movie in an exterior.

Robert Richardson

Find Difficult Most Movie Very

No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right to vote. Wanna know what a certain proposition put forth by a cadre of undisclosed billionaires which cuts funding for public education, arts and infrastructure means? Use the voting guide!

Steven Weber

Education Voting Political You Find

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

Rodney Dangerfield

Time Too Much Drink Last Time Last

I've worked with Bette Davis, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda. Here's the thing they all have in common: They all, even in their 70s, worked a little harder than everyone else.

Ron Howard

Everyone Little Here Common Even

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

Mikhail Bakunin

Passion Hope Day Every Day Despair

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

Diablo Cody

Positive Me Window Negative Think

I've repeated time and again that Arizona is open for business.

Doug Ducey

Business Time Open Arizona Again

We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.

Debbie Reynolds

Dance School Joy Learn Place Go

When people watch 'Power' and they find out the showrunner is black, it's not surprising. What is surprising is that I am a woman and my background is not particularly urban.