Don Rickles Quotes
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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I've never liked rehearsing too much.
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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Square meals often make round people.
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
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Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!
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I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes.
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.
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When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was the WB. My age was perfect for it, but I just never came across as a youngster. I had to grow into my age in order to start working, and by the time I did, it was when things started to get good.
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A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.
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My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.
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I learned a lot of things that I didn't know about playing quarterback. Going to Metro, I learned how to move in the pocket and how to position the ball on pass plays.
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I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio.
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The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.
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The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.
