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" If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously. "
Dennis Quaid
Yourself
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" I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God. "
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" I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin. "
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" I still have my original love for acting. That's why I feel so lucky. I think that's what sustains me in the sort of leaner times. "
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" I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him. "
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