Merlin Olsen Quotes
One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
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Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
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If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.
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The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.
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There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.
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I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.
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That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.
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Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.
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He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.
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One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
