Denis Leary Quotes
I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.
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The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.
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I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.
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And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.
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I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.
