Dennis Farina Quotes
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I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
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When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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I either run or try to play basketball every day.
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Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.
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There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
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I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.
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I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.
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I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.
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Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
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How sweet to be an idiotAt my back With no fear of attack As much retaliation as a toy.
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The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.
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Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.
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As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of writing; I think that's the word I'm looking for, rhythms of creativity which then, of course, become very intense. I think your writing then tends to be very intensified simply because there are other demands which seem equally important.
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I was a policeman for 18 years.
