Denis Healey Quotes
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I'm a character actor.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
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You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.
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There are thoughts we must not think.
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Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.
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On the 1983 general election (The News of the World, 19 June 1983).
