Dave Foley Quotes
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
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And every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it.
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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
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It's easy to respect a general, but it's hard to love them.
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I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.
