Dan Aykroyd Quotes
When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, and there's something about being in that car.
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Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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I played basketball and baseball up until college, yea. Then I lost my discipline and started chasing girls and whatnot.
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I grew up watching MTV, so it's very surreal to me to think that there might be someone out there watching MTV, looking at us the way I used to look at Davis Madonna and Duran Duran videos.
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When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.
