Dennis Franz Quotes
I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will be hard to top, and It's caused me to turn down several good film opportunities because of the schedule.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.
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The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.
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When I am making a sequel, it needs to be different from what you have already seen. Yet, it needs to maintain a certain discipline so that people still associate it with the prequel.
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While brands slowly transform the experience of campus life for undergraduates, another kind of takeover is under way at the institutional research level. All over the world, university campuses are offering their research facilities, and priceless academic credibility, for the brands to use as they please.
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I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will be hard to top, and It's caused me to turn down several good film opportunities because of the schedule.
