Dean Ornish Quotes
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When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.
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You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.
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The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.
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I was once described as being mediumly handsome, and that's a right-on analysis for me.
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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.
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We make our own labor unions. We organize our labor into units of 300, and then the representatives of these 300 meet together every week. Then every fortnight they meet with the head men.
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I'm intensely private. I don't like giving interviews.
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
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You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.
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Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.
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Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.
