Dick Van Patten Quotes

I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.

Dick Van Patten

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 9, 1928 - June 23, 2015

Topics

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From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

Joanne Harris

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I think there's a difference between making a feel-good movie like 'Think Like a Man' and a feel-good show like 'Common Law.' It's not too heavy, it's not too serious. You just walk away with a smile on your face. I think that makes people somewhat more endearing to you.

Michael Ealy

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The real challenge lies in maintaining dignity while being funny. I am in awe of Krushna Abhishek's energy and Bharti Singh's wit. They are infectious and selfless.

Amruta Khanvilkar

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I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality.

Amy Adams

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Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.

Mary E. Pearson

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A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.

Mary Gauthier

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That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

Mitch Kapor

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Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.

Lucy Lawless

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The days of trying to get a consumer to come to you are over. You really have to be in the consumer's world, wherever, whenever and however.

Mindy Grossman

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Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Luc Ferrari

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To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

Ludwig Bemelmans

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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