Dennis Farina Quotes
I wasn't so sure about signing up for 'Law & Order.' I liked the show, but another TV series? I'll tell you, though, it's been great, and I had no idea how popular the show was.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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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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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters in.
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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.
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I never worried about raising a kid on my own.
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I wasn't so sure about signing up for 'Law & Order.' I liked the show, but another TV series? I'll tell you, though, it's been great, and I had no idea how popular the show was.
