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I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Dirk Benedict

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Dirk Benedict
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: March 1
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Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that... reveals your inner self, whether you like it, or know it, or not. It is hard to fake it on a dance floor.
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The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.
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From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
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I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
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It is all about marketing that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.
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From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.
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From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
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The space genre is timeless.
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When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.
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America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
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It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.
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I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.
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You can't leave civilization behind entirely.
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At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.
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There is a divine moment in our lives when we become One. It is called pro-creation and it is reborn continually and forever in the future we call children. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents... we fail as God's Children.
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My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.
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Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
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Life without kids is like a camera without film.
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Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.
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