Dennis Quaid Quotes
I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
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My sister and I had a tough childhood, but my mom always said that travelling is the most beautiful thing you can do in your life. She always showed us the globe and gifted me an atlas.
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You're kidding, right?" Ezra barked. "We're not just going to wait." "I suppose we could help people clean up a bit," "Girl!" Ezra called out. "Big eyes!" Winter turned from what she was looking at. "Are you talking to me?
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
