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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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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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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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.
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As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
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I was terribly shy, but I was always in harmony when I was dancing.
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It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
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I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.
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I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
