Jamie Farr Quotes
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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I love writing songs.
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At the end of Season 1 of 'Cheers', it was the lowest rated show in all of network television... So we turn to 'Bill Cosby'; when he came to Thursday night, he just exploded. And once the audience was there, we said, 'Hey, by the way, we also have this other great show. It's called 'Cheers'.'
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
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Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
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So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.
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We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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The canon is dominated by books written by men, about men, and for men - the male voice is therefore not a particularly difficult one to impersonate.
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Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.
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When something you use again and again is on sale, take advantage. This strategy doesn't apply to perishable items, and you don't want to buy so much more than you need just to get a deal, but if you know you're going to use a product eventually, it pays to take advantage of the cheaper price.
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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
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Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
