Joe Dante Quotes
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?
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The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success.
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My dad was the guy who wanted to teach a man to fish. He was very, very curious, right up until the day he died. He was insatiable for information. He was the pursuit of awesome.
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When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.
