Dirk Benedict Quotes
It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
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Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.
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I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.
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It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.
