"People are composed of many things, and in……" — Kirk Douglas
"People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?"
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53 Quotes by Kirk Douglas
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My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that…
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A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure…
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Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to…
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I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed…
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The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.
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The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some…
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Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it…
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Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
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You have not learned to live until you have learned to give
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Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?
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Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window…
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You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.
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The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of…
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All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as…
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Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing…
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A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual…
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The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and…
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The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.
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In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice.…
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There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal…
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The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true…
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