Dom DeLuise Quotes
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.
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I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.
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It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all that. What they don't know is how are you going to pay for it.
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A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
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Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.
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You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
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Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.
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My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
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You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.
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Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
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The garden is a raging sea, The hurricane is snarling;Oh, happy you and happy me!Isn't the lightning darling?
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Ah, but my Computations, People say, Reduced the Year to better reckoning? - Nay 'Twas only striking from the Calendar Unborn To-morrow, and dead Yesterday.
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I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen ... [W]hat makes a work of art 'good' for you is not something that is already 'inside' it, but something that happens inside you.
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Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.
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I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.
