Dabney Coleman Quotes
I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef America' when I got 'SNL.' It was one of those situations where you're concentrating in one thing and the peripheral thing popped.
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Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.
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My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron.
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
