Danny DeVito Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.
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What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?
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The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
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Very good records exist about the Trail of Tears. Journals and other records kept by Cherokees and non-Indians tell such things as which people were where on which day.
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I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.
