Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Too clever is dumb.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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I am an austere president.
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing... I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton.
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Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.
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I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.
