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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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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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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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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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
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Every place you go to, they have their own little flair.
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I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
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With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
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'Luke Cage' came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of blaxploitation movies. It was the first time in American culture that Hollywood was embracing black movies.
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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.
