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 started to read labels around age 18 or 19. I don't buy things that don't sound like food, and I've been that way all my life. I do go through phases, during which I eat meat for maybe three months then don't. I do eat lots of vegetables. It's the same with dairy - I'll eat it then stop.
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Being a dad is the best thing that ever happened to me. It changed my life entirely.
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A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.
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For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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Our society is constantly creating this framework for girls to feel that their only worth is their appearance, and it's damaging on so many levels to so many people.
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My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.
