Dennis Farina Quotes
I have - and you gotta believe this - hardly ever met anybody in Hollywood who's not nice. There are some people I don't like, but everybody has been very nice.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I love working the legislative process.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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Progress comes at a price. You have to be willing to make tough calls and take the hits.
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The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.
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Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.
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And so, it's not a thing of how many carries, but were you effective when you did carry.
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I have - and you gotta believe this - hardly ever met anybody in Hollywood who's not nice. There are some people I don't like, but everybody has been very nice.
