Larry Hagman Quotes
I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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Love, and do what you like.
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I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?
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I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.
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I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions.
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My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some of these other major expenditures that we have that we've got to deal with to make sure that we're not just leaving you guys with a mountain of debt.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
