Dave Foley Quotes
And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.'
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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My childhood was appalling.
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All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it…The great stroke of luck for the military class’s terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don’t recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.
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I've been able to work with some incredible voice talent, most of whom I grew up hearing in my favorite cartoons.
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In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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We actually found some home videos, some really funny footage of me when I was around 3 years old. I come up to the camera to do a Nixon impression. I don't know who taught me that, but I come up to the camera and said, 'I am not a crook.' I got a really good laugh. You see me register that bringing joy to people is a positive thing.
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And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.'
