Dick Van Patten Quotes
If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.
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One of the implications of the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and its many small planets is that many scientists now think of the solar system as having not two but three zones.
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I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
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There's a lot of guys in the UFC who are good at one thing, and they get matched up stylistically well.
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I was the biggest Public Enemy fan - I think it's what inspired the aggression of N.W.A. We just took a different route lyrically.
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If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big.
