Bradford Dillman Quotes
Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.
Quotes to Explore
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
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During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.
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I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
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While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.
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Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.
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America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
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We all want to win against all odds. We all want to be loved. We all wish it was possible to change our world and to make our world a better place.
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My dream is to have a bed of my own in Los Angeles and one in Sweden.
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You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.
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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
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We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
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We got Frank Rodriguez started in the band (playing keyboard). I was 14; it was during the Vietnam War, and it was exploding. We were left without two members, and it felt like everything was falling apart.
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I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.
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I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might - which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International law should be spelled l-o-r-e.
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Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.
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Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.
