Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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The RSC changed my career, and 'Coronation Street' changed my life.
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At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.
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There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE bird of night chatters endlessly.
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I think the truth is black-and-white.
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
