Ted Danson Quotes
I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
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The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.
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I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.
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I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
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I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
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I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.
