Diedrich Bader Quotes
When I was a kid and we first moved to the states I used to watch 'Batman' all the time - with Adam West. I finally got to work with him years ago, and I totally geeked out.
Quotes to Explore
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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I remember being called 'feminazi' and all that. I'm so proud of these young women who are coming out and not afraid to say they are feminists.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.
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Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.
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My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
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When I was a kid and we first moved to the states I used to watch 'Batman' all the time - with Adam West. I finally got to work with him years ago, and I totally geeked out.
