Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
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I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
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I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
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I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.
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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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The cosmology of the ancient world was telling you about the nature of life here and now. Genesis is not about the origins of life. There were many other creation stories current in Israel at that time and no one was required to believe in that one.
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...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
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The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
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Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.
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Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.
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And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.
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As an actor, you're not a person; you're a product, a commodity. It's about money. Your job is about making money for other people. At some point, you learn how to be on the other side of that table. You write, direct, produce, and create opportunity for yourself. Then you start to make money for yourself.
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There are no more Walt Disneys anymore.
