Dick Van Dyke Quotes
But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
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There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.
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I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher and communicate how this planet is very overwhelming at this point. The difficulties we face are overwhelming. It's very difficult to give yourself the time to breathe and appreciate the joy and beauty that might be just right around us.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
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Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.
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Money is what allowed the division of labor to extend beyond the confines of a small town to cities, nations, and ultimately the entire world.
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In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.
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I've said the Grammys messed up metal because it's not on TV. What I'm saying is when you're in a metal category, it's not televised, and it doesn't move the needle forward for metal artists, and I wish they had more respect for the genre.
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The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.
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There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.
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But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.
