Dennis Quaid Quotes
I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.
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I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.
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The best things in life should never be rushed.
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Simply put, ObamaCare cost Americans jobs through uncertainty and now implementation threatens even more jobs. No wonder the majority of Americans continue to oppose it.
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Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind of resource: a human resource, where you can really look to your creative colleagues and actually ask questions that are honest.
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I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.
