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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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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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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I do not like violence.
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There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
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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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Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians.
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When talented, qualified women take on greater responsibility, the simple fact of being talented and qualified is hardly enough to shield them from the gender-specific animosity that will come their way.
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I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.
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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.
