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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Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.
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It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.
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I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.
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Duesberg is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is absolutely correct that the virus cultured in the laboratory may not be the cause of AIDS.
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When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.
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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.