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For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

Charlton Heston

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Charlton Heston
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 4
Died: 2008
Died: April 5
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
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Illinois
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As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.
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The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.
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I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.
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I'm not a vegetarian but I want you to know that my four dogs are safe.
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As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet I abhor armies. I can even add that I've been introduced to hundreds of women but never married. in other words no one's ever talked me into anything.
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A war put off is not a war avoided.
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Life is full of surprises, isn't it?
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I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.
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I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.
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It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin - every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands.
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Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate from the will of a ruler, to choose whether a man should live by grace of law, or law by grace of man. In a literal sense Moses lives at every council table today.
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You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
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To the world, you are America.
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You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.
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A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials.
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My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.
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Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.
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I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry.
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You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.
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I don't think rock music has any positive function.
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