Dennis Farina Quotes

I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea.

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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.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Remember
  • Rock
  • Sex

• 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.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • You
  • Competition
  • Management

• 'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Fans
  • Twilight
  • Got

• A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Writing
  • Through

• Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Money
  • Help
  • Attention

• People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Like
  • Being

• 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.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Experience
  • Space
  • Rude

• 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.

  

  Laird Barron
  • God
  • Mom
  • Fire

• It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • World
  • Men
  • Short

• I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
  • Struggle
  • Strange

• I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Always
  • Challenges
  • Young

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Career
  • Working
  • Lucky

• 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.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Media
  • Content
  • Website

• I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

  

  Imelda May
  • Men
  • Feminist
  • Means

• When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • You
  • Start
  • First

• I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Really
  • Interested
  • Vegan

• 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.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Up
  • Night

• Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.

  

  M. Ward
  • Song
  • Giving
  • Respect

• What’s in your backpack, Bess?” Nancy Drew asked

  

  Carolyn Keene
  • Backpack

• As your friend and ally we urged all parties to work together to sustain Poland's democratic institutions, that's what makes us democracies, not just ... the fact that we vote in elections, but the institutions we depend on every day such as rule of law, independent judiciaries.

  

  Andrzej Duda
  • Institutions
  • Elections
  • Democracies

• I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea.

  

  Dennis Farina