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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Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.
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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 love singing as much as I love acting.
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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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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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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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You try to get the feel of any role, but it's much more difficult in the case of Christ because everyone has their own personal image of Him. It's a role you take on, knowing that no matter how you play it, you are going to disappoint many.
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There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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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.
