Terry Bradshaw Quotes
You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
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It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.
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My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
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Keep me alive. Keep me alive long enough for me to conquer the animal within myself. Long enough for me to learn to partner myself with a woman who is better and stronger than me. Long enough for me to reconcile myself with my brothers. Long enough to be as good a man as my father, and as good as my mother, too.
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'I am of no faith,' said Aenea. 'If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.'
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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It took me a long time to write again because Katrina destroyed the home I loved, and that robbed me of hope.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.
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The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them.
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.
