Leslie Nielsen Quotes
It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
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Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
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A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
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Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.
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There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.
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It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!
