DeForest Kelley Quotes
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There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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Photography is an accident.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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I am a just man.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one, but I'm aiming for it!
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My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.
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My general audition song is almost always 'Man That Got Away.'
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The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.
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The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.
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I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.
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I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.
