I was a bouncer when I was in DePaul in Chicago at the theater school. I threw drunks out of bars - unless I had a play running that weekend. But I only had two actual fights. Some were like out of old Westerns.
Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.
I only have words of thanks to Mourinho, he has made me better. I played a lot under him and I was named player of the season with him in the dugout.
The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
Only dumb people are happy.
You're only as good as your dumbest competitor.
Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
I don't like to dump the dressing on top of the greens. Instead, I pour it against the side of the bowl - using only enough to glaze the leaves - then toss.
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
I have done films only for the sake of money and sometimes, I have been duped into believing that the film is a sensible project.
Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil picture now owned by the Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee, called 'Hark! the Lark.'
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
There are only so many stories in the world... Duplication of plots is bound to happen because most writers have read very extensively in their genre and have become aware they are adding an extra layer to the meta-narrative, finding a new spin on the original.
The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.
To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
