Dylan McDermott Quotes
I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
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Doing comedy is still in my veins; that's my first love.
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Planet Earth is far more resilient than humans and will certainly outlive us.
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There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that.
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I like high fantasy as much as the next guy, but I also like a bit of grit and grime with my faux-medieval trappings.
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To the millions of Americans who've attempted to use HealthCare.gov to shop and enroll in health-care coverage, I want to apologize to you that the Web site has not worked as well as it should. We know how desperately you need affordable coverage.
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I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.
