Dennis Lehane Quotes
I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.
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Broadway is really my life.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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This is sports. In sports, you win and you lose. That's the nature of sports. You can't get away from that part of it. And if you get too hung up on the losing part, then you miss the boat. The competition part, a game like that, is why you play sports. That is as good as it gets.
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I'm terrified of being poor, I always have been. It's growing up as a Methodist. I'll spend that bit of extra money to get a better seat on a train sometimes, because it's quieter and calmer, but I refuse to spend money on clothes.
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George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.
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I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.
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I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.
