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Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 13, 1925

Topics

Family Man Drive Never Tenacity Had

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

Tree Know Way Old Without Lived

I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

Melissa Mathison

Children Parents Story Feel Fat Go

I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.

People Pilot Admire Class Years Who

Most large media firms make outsized investments to acquire and market a small number of titles with strong hit potential, and bank on their sales to make up for middling performance in the rest of their catalogs.

Performance Small Rest Strong Media

Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.

Hope Vision Start Book You Wrong

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

Myself Yourself Be Yourself Acting

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Judge Worth You Down Without Head

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

Opinion Think Out Original Still He

I'm still trying to be No. 1 in the world, like everyone else is out there.

World Trying Everyone Out Still

On average, an e-commerce client who evolves into a premier enterprise client increases their annual spend by 10 times in that first year.

Year First Average Client Annual

I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.

Walk Green Homework Reach Down Want

Radio voices have a solid, even texture.

Radio Texture Voices Solid Even

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