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 liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
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Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
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Nina was always loved. Maybe that’s a bad thing. It gives people that terrible confidence that the world is going to give them the chance to fulfill themselves.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
