James Arness Quotes
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I have a great office.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
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Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.
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There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.
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I think Lady Gaga is talented. Madonna is talented, and the flair that Michael Jackson had. He was talented! Whatever it is that they do, they must be doing something right. They do have an audience out there, so I respect that.
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As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.
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I'm a chick. I like shopping.
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I had the privilege of working with so many great actors over the years.
