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 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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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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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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Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
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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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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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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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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.