Brian Dennehy Quotes

My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.

Brian Dennehy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 9, 1938

Topics

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I think the kids that struggle are way more prepared for real life.

Jimmy John Liautaud

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I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.

Jessica Pare

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Joe's been my drummer for 14 years, and we've been buddies for six years.

John Mayall

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Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity.

Michael Gambon

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My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Mary Augusta Ward

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To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

Mary Hunter Austin

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The war broke out, and I wanted to do something to aid my country in a time of crisis. I was too tall for the WACs and WAVES, but eventually joined the OSS and set out into the world looking for adventure.

Julia Child

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I think art breaks down otherness.

Dee Rees

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It costs less to eat and live more healthfully. Walking, loving, meditating, and quitting smoking are free and require no special equipment.

Dean Ornish

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It was an amazing experience, a dream come true, to sing and act alongside Prince and become dear friends with all the members of The Revolution while filming 'Purple Rain.'

Apollonia Kotero

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We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

William Shatner

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Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

William Hurt

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