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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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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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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My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot in a person.
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There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland. We have young people like Eduardo Corral, who won the Yale Younger Poets Award. José Antonio Rodriguez, published by Luis Rodriguez. But there are only a few of us who are paid attention to in New York. There are legions behind us who are not.
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My father and mother deeply loved me and my sister.
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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I'm very bad at violence in real life. I can't stand it. And I'm so fed up with crime novels that have too much violence. I can't really do it. It's unnecessary.
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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.
