Dennis Wilson Quotes
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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It's liberating to wear clothes that are outside the boundaries of what I'm supposed to wear, ya know, based on the traditional model, whether that be a country music singer, or being from the country. It's not a rebellious thing.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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I was nobody to make a pass to. I was very thin like a boy and I was very un-sexy.
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I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.
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There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love.
