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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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 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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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.
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Charter hired me - which, to be honest, took some humility on its part, since I have helped lead public campaigns against cable companies like Charter - to advise it in crafting its commitment to network neutrality.
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Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
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Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
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Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
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I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
