Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
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I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Never give up, and never give in.
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Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?
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Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
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I used to be obsessed with Johnny Depp. I never thought of him as this normal guy. I just always imagined him as someone who lives in a far-off land and doesn't even exist.
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Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
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My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever, Sonny Liston would go and knock guys out, and that made it all right.
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For two hours, some guy followed me around with a pooper scooper.
