Dennis Wilson Quotes
They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'
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At my high school, there were always kids carrying acoustic guitars around, which is why I named my band the Mountain Goats. I didn't want to seem like one of those guys who brought his guitar to the party whether you asked him to or not.
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It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.
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Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.
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I shop, therefore I am.
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They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will.
