Dennis Farina Quotes
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I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.
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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.
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Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
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I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.
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I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.
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From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.
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I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.
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When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.
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I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.
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Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
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New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I always admired my father because he was a man that never put on any airs, you know. And I always tried to be that kind of person.
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When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.
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I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea.
