Dirk Benedict Quotes
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Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.
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America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
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Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
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From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
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I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.
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I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.
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It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.
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Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
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Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
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I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.
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From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
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I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
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If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.
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The space genre is timeless.
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If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
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There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.
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I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
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I never get involved with the ladies I work with.
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In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.
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Movies are movies, television is television.
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To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.
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Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.