Denton Cooley Quotes
I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics... Playing basketball you have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
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Trust me: I've been travelling, making movies, and spending the remainder of my time at home.
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Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
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The average person tells a few white lies.
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics... Playing basketball you have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.
