Dom DeLuise Quotes
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.
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Their crew for 'Arrow' is just one of the most wonderful crews that I've worked with. I know that actors say that all the time, and it sounds like trash coming out of my own mouth, but it's so true.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.
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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
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I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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'In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,' says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.
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What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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Somebody once told me I was skinny. That made me happy.
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I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.
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...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.
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When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.
