Darrell Waltrip Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
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I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.
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Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.
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At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.
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I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.
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The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents.
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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I just lost my lunch and I didn’t even have any!
