Tyne Daly Quotes
Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
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Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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I have a very positive outlook.
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I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.
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When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
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In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.
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Morris Louis and I were interested in how Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler famous for her soak-painting technique were using paint. Of necessity we had to get more interested in the stuff of painting. We talked a lot about whether to size the painting or not to size, how to mix up paint.
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Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.
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I do think it's very important, if you're going to spend the rest of your life with somebody, to know that you really like them. Because when the pheromones wear off, which of course they will, you have to have a strong basis.
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Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
