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 death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
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With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from those of the common people, made boxing unfashionable.
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
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A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.
