Thomas Aloysius Dorgan (Tad Dorgan) Quotes
Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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We all pretend, we all hide things, so why not take the concept to an extreme? That is the basic idea for the character of Dexter. Pretend to be human, while quietly and carefully living out the life of a monster on the side.
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Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.
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I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.
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Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.
