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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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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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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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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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 didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.
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I would like to be the best in the world, but that's not the be-all and end-all. I want to have fun in my sport, and I want to take it as far as I can. Obviously, I do have big goals like that. But they don't take over who I am as a person and my family and everything else that's important in my life.
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You are a valuable subject, Brodrig. You always suspect far more than is necessary, and I have but to take half your suggested precautions to be utterly safe.
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I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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.
