Dennis Farina Quotes
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.
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My collections are a reflection of my personality, and the satisfaction I get from wearing my own designs is indescribable.
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People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.
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I love the idea of my kids speaking Spanish. I wish I was better at it. Luckily, my son's really into Dora and Diego on Nick Jr. It makes it so much fun to have him tell me what things are in Spanish.
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As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.
