Dave Foley Quotes
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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When I'm not in front of the camera, I'm just like any other normal person. I'm a student. I eat when I'm stressed.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.
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Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
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Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
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You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.
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Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.
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Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
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As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.
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Everything just sort of lived, as they say, into place.
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When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a go of this, and they threw every contract at me they could. And for two years, I had a book or an anthology out every month.
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If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.
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'NewsRadio' was fantastic.
