Dyan Cannon Quotes
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
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I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
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I love to stay at home and write.
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Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.
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Of course I prefer to be with someone, but with the right someone.
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Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.
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There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.
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Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.
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It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.
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We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
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God's love doesn't leave out Jews or Muslims or anyone.
