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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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.
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Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.
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The thing I love about golf is that it's all on me. I can't blame another player, the wind, or even blame a bad round on one chunked shot. It's not subjective at all. Meanwhile, acting is very subjective. I can be the best actor and not get the job.
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Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.
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Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.
