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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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I never told a joke in my life.
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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
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At every sound check, I try to practice on the stage that we're gonna play on that night, 'cause every stage is different. Whether it's concrete or whether it's plywood or whether it's Plexiglas, it all requires different things. You can't dance on concrete as well as you can dance on Plexiglas.
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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.
