Ted Danson Quotes
You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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Sometimes you do complete run-throughs of scenes, sometimes you break scenes down into little bits. It just depends on what the actors like to do. It's almost like jamming.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
