Dick Van Dyke Quotes
I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.
Quotes to Explore
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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A novel is not a rant.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.
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All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.
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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.
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I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.
