"My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be."

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Source : Gwen Cooper (2010). “Homer's Odyssey”, p.15, Random House

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“You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.”
“I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.”

Source : "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Charles Durning". Playbill On-Line Interview, www.playbill.com. February 22, 2000.
“I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.”
“There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles.”
“Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.”
“Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother, caretaker, and in some cases, doctors, heads of organizations and things like that. For some people, I'm finally old enough to play those roles. We see men playing them when they're a little bit younger, and also in roles that call for some form of conflict and violence, either generating it or trying to curtail it. Women don't seem to be a big part of those common and often used movie themes.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We didn't look like scoring, although we looked like we were going to get a goal.”

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