Dabney Coleman Quotes
I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.
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I don't think about it. I have always been linked up with everybody.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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We want a fireworks theory of evolution. The last two thousand million years are slow evolution: they are the smoke and ashes of bright but very rapid fireworks.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
