Dick Van Patten Quotes
I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
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Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.
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Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.
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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
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The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.
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For my body, I like high-waisted jeans because they make your leg look longer and hides this extra thing on my stomach. You can eat extra food with it because it hides, and I like to tuck in my t-shirts.
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I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.
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I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.
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Neither one of the parties is doing anything for poor people. They're both full of it. Black people have been voting Democratic their whole life, and they're still poor. And the Republicans don't do anything for poor people, either.
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I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.
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No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.
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When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
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I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.
