Richard LaGravenese Quotes
When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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Russians don't complain, usually.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
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I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.
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In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Public health and safety are my highest priorities.
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If I'm really honest, I can't cook. I'm, like, the worst, worst, worst cook in the world.
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I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it's life-shortening. And also, there's no need for it; it uses up energy.
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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
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A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.
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I'm not going to say that I'm perfect. I do have fashion crises.
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Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.
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When I say, 'Everybody to the table and eat,' I mean it. That is the glue, the center that holds the family, that gives security. Good food brings everybody to the table.
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I use myself as a template for my comedy. So first my background as a Muslim man, my being a doctor, I talk about my family quite a lot, my kids. Anything that resonates with me I talk about. The important thing is it should be able to work in a family setting.
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My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.
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When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.
