"There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the actors who made that go away."

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Source : "Sledge Hammer! star David Rasche on the fun of puncturing American gun culture". Interview with John Teti, tv.avclub.com. January 16, 2016.

David Rasche

#Artist Quotes #People Quotes #Going Away Quotes

“Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.”

Source : Clive James (2017). “Clive James On Television”, p.486, Pan Macmillan
“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
“Lyrics are for teenage girls, brah.”
“I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. "The thing is," I said finally, "he won the Nobel Prize." "Well," she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, "I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
“Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen, the world's ugliest and most expensive hydrocarbon, can never be a reasonable substitute for light oil due to its extreme capital, energy, and carbon intensity. Bitumen looks, smells, and behaves like asphalt; running an economy on it is akin to digging up our existing road infrastructure, melting it down, and enriching the goop with hydrogen until it becomes a sulfur-rich but marketable oil.”
“Luckily, I was raised by people whod already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didnt want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.”
“The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.”
“All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.”

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