Dennis Weaver Quotes
If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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If you have to forecast, forecast often.
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When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.
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It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
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It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.
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Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.
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I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.
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I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.
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Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.
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Seeing within changes one's outer vision.
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I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.
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Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture.
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If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
