Brian Dennehy Quotes
My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
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I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
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Follow your own star!
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If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.
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Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.
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The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
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My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.
