Dana Carvey Quotes

I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.

Dana Carvey

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I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done.

Mercedes McCambridge

WorkThinkDoneHardestI Think

When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

Amanda Lindhout

LifeDayCompassionPeaceDeathWar

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

Amanda Beard

MeThinkRaceSwimConcentrateThem

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

Stieg Larsson

LifePeopleMeSocietyMy LifeWant

If, after five years, I hadn't had anything published, I was just going to forget it and go back to TV full-time until I retired or they put me out to pasture.

Simon Toyne

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The only way to get to that next peak is to be ready for that next valley. Being raised Irish, you know to always be ready for the bad times.

Rory O'Malley

YouBadReadyKnowBad TimesWay

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

Louis MacNeice

StrengthI AmMeHumanityBornWho

My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm really proud of that.

Josh Duhamel

MyselfParentsProudLastWanted

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Anthony Davis

WantHardAlwaysOutFitTried

What's on my playlist when I'm fighting is not so much hip-hop. Sometimes, it's something more inspirational. I get a chance to think about what I'm fighting for, like, my family. It takes me to that state because a lot of times, it's a spiritual warfare for me.

Tyron Woodley

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I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

Marianne Faithfull

ChildThinkPersonAlwaysPurity

Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.

Leslie Howard

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