Tom Skerritt Quotes
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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It's hard to be serious in life.
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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
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I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.
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You can wait forever for perfect conditions or you can make do with what you have.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.
