Dan Aykroyd Quotes
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
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One should eat cumin every day!
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Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.
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You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
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I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
