Dean L. Larsen Quotes
Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.

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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.
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My songs are about who I am.
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.
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I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.
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We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
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We can’t help being the most interesting people in the room.
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I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.
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Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.