Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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Be careful not to start a company that really belongs as a feature of another company, like the 25 Twitter URL shortener companies out there. Pick a real problem that's here to stay.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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I love the energy over here in the U.K., the hospitality is insane.
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Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.
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I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
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My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
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This is where the block chain is most useful and revolutionary: It helps us to overcome the problem of mutual trust in exchange, which will, in turn, make many of our modern central institutions unnecessary.
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My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.
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The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
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It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
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A lot of the bad guys I've played just haven't had much dimension to them.
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...she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.
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in terms of personnel, or changing the technique, there are a couple of things you can do there. We shouldn't have any blocked, and we've already had two. So it concerns us.
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Emotionally, I'm about 13.
