Dick Van Dyke Quotes
All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.
Quotes to Explore
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.
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Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.
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You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
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How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
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Shah Rukh Khan is the love of my life. I love Aamir Khan also.
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
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From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.
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I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.
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At present the national budget plays a very large role in the whole financial policy of our country.
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As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.
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I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
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What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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I love the language of, you know, the old black country man with a blues guitar and... boots and the quick banter.
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All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.
