James Arness Quotes
I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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Visibility is dangerous because if a guy cuts you off in traffic, you can't call him a name - it might get to the press.
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In high school, we would do improv. Me and my boy were, like, the stars of the class.
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I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while, when people tell you you can't do something because you're a woman, you begin to believe maybe they're right.
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There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.
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I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.
