Mary Tyler Moore Quotes
Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.
Quotes to Explore
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
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I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.
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You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another. What the laws of physics say.
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People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.
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I'm not the best gamer - I think you need to be strategic and level-headed, and you need to remain calm under pressure... and I don't really have those qualities!
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We weren't ready to handle the back screens and all the cuts. They execute their plays to the fullest and get the best shot possible.
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Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.
