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 am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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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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When I was younger, I did my first audition at 'Eurovision.' I was about 17. After my first audition, I blacked out; I was just like, 'I can't do this.' I'm not knocking it or anything - it's been around for years. I'm just very, very happy I made that decision myself. I think that's one of the best decisions I've ever made.
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'Battlestar' was 22 episodes - 9 to 10 months a year - and we were exhausted. You finish shooting, and the last thing you want to do is go back to work. You want those 3 months off because you're tired - it's a grueling shooting schedule.
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Institutions are the humanly devised constraints that structure political, economic, and social interactions. They consist of both informal constraints (sanctions, taboos, customs, tradition, and code of conduct) and formal rules (constitutions, laws, property rights).
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right? I want it that way.
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When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.
