Dennis Farina Quotes
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
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Maybe that's some of the reason I feel so good today. Maybe I finally realised that it's just a game.
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Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
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I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.
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He got himself involved. It wasn't so much anything we did specifically ? we did really the same things we've been doing. He found ways to get his hands on the ball.
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Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.