Dan Aykroyd Quotes
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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My childhood was appalling.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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The world is no longer against us.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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The thing that always struck me about 'Jonny Quest' is: What kind of parent brings his kid to the Amazon so that yetis can throw boulders at him?
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You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
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But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.
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Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?
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The first draft of 'Ex Machina' is extremely different than the finished film. That would be like 10% of the original draft stayed into the shooting script.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
