James Arness Quotes
The kids don't really have any part of my television life. Fortunately, there aren't many times when show business intrudes on our family existence.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I would like to direct.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.
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I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.
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My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
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Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.
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I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.
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The kids don't really have any part of my television life. Fortunately, there aren't many times when show business intrudes on our family existence.
