Tyne Daly Quotes
The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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Believe in your work.
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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.
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Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
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If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face.
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Every day I do one or two podcasts that 92 percent of people never will hear. I'm constantly producing, constantly making jokes for Twitter. There's a lot of pressure there. On the flip side, I think having to produce like that makes you a better comedian.
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The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.
