Dan Webster Quotes
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.
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We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.
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The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.
