Ricky Schroder Quotes
I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation.
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
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I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.
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Islam is about finding your own space.
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Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
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'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
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I love horror movies, but it's not the only thing I want to do.
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I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
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It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.
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I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation.
