Dennis Quaid Quotes
I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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Let the path be open to talent.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
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Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.
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I'm not comfortable leaving the apartment if the bed isn't made or a chair isn't tucked into the table.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.
