Brian Dennehy Quotes
My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.
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What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.
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Dancing gives an innate physical awareness - it's physical training. Acting feels like the same medium but just with words.
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One of the most beautiful sights is when the rim of the Earth is bright on one side, and you see this defined line of the atmosphere. You see how close and thin it is. We've got to be careful. We've got to take care of this planet.
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The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.
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My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.
