Ted Danson Quotes
If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
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Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone... these guys are a different level, man.
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I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways, it's a pretty frightening experience. But normally, I do tend to walk against fear and hope that I'll be able to survive.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
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Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.
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No matter where I go, in this country or outside of this country, there are young people, and I'm always surprised that young people know about me and Colt 45.
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Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will discover another culture through an American writer rather read a writer from that culture.
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I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.
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Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
