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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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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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 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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Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
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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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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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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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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
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The space genre is timeless.
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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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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 we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
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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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I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
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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.
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We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.
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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.