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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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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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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Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.
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Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.
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People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.
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It is not as easy as one would think finding the right people. Coming out of Van Halen, I knew I didn't want to put a three-piece together.
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Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.
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I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea.
