Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.
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I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
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When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?
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You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
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I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.
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Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.
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I work like a dog, really. I go over scripts like a mad man and just want to make sure I have my house built, so that I can just kind of go nuts inside of it.
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I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.
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Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
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I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.
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My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.
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People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
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The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
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I'm a tomboy myself and have always been incredibly athletic.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
