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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Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
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One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
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Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.
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Do you realize that God expects you to consider that you are actually working for Jesus Christ on your job?
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I think the best tip I've ever learned is contouring with a really light concealer under the eye around the nose. And then powdering over it immediately. It makes it stay and gives it a natural look.
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Emotionally, I'm about 13.
