Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.
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Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
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I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.
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It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style.
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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
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I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
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People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
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I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
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If you're right, and nobody really cares what’s out there, I wonder whether we’re even worth saving.
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The kids were both adolescents, at that happy stage where they could simultaneously make him confident about the future while they were sabotaging the present.
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Opportunities may come along for you to convert something-something that exists into something that didn't yet.
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For some the wind can fleshly blow, for some the sunlight fade at ease, but we, made partners in our dread, hear but the grating of the keys, and heavy-booted soldiers' tread. As if for early mass, we rose and each day walked the wilderness, trudging through silent street and square, to congregate, less live than dead.
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I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.
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I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.
Charles B. Rangel -
There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don't think I could avoid not coming out of there with a pretty good sense of humor.
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Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.
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If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.
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If I start something, I have to finish it. I know that's annoying - it drives my husband mad - but even if something's not going my way, I have to see it through.
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The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
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It's not a nice-to-have - it's a must-have. It's time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women's issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.
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Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.
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Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.
