Bradford Dillman Quotes
I prefer to have longevity. I like as great a variety as possible, hopefully to avoid getting stuck in one kind of character, having to do it over and over again. I seek to challenge myself as an actor - and at the same time support my family.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.
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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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I miss Colombia. It's a great place.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
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So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
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I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.
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Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was no ordinary mortal. History is rife with mysteries, and that visit ignited a fire to unveil some of them.
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It has always irked me as improper that there are still so many people for whom the sky is no more than a mass of random points of light. I do not see why we should recognize a house, a tree, or a flower here below and not, for example, the red Arcturus up there in the heavens as it hangs from its constellation Bootes, like a basket hanging from a balloon.
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I prefer to have longevity. I like as great a variety as possible, hopefully to avoid getting stuck in one kind of character, having to do it over and over again. I seek to challenge myself as an actor - and at the same time support my family.
