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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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
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The application of algebra to geometry... far more than any of his metaphysical speculations, has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.
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In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.
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I think 90% of women that I come into contact with are fans of my hair.
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I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
