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I love going to work.
Craig T. Nelson / Actor
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I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.
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Teachers
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I lost my parents when I was fairly young.
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Lost
Parent
Young
Fairly
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No one is accountable anymore for anything.
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Accountable
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California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund.
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Politics
California
States
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My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for The District and CSI: NY.
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Csi
Son
Youngest Son
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I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.
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Help Me
Helping
Welfare
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My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for 'The District' and 'CSI: NY.'
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Csi
District
Ny
Youngest
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If people are going to watch TV, let's give them something coherent with actual dialogue.
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Dialogue
Tv
Actual
Coherent
Watch
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When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.
Craig T. Nelson / Actor
Forgiveness
Inspirational
Compassion
Connections
Easier
Helps
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I really wanted to do 'Modern Family,' and I really liked the script, and I liked the people.
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Modern Family
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It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.
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People
United States
Wealth
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What it takes just to earn a living - working two or three jobs - is driving a wedge in families that shouldn't be there.
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Earn
Wedge
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No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. Well, you're to blame. That's to blame. This is to blame.
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Blame
Accountable
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Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.
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Parenting
Grandfather
Nine
Increasingly
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The beauty of 'Parenthood' is that it's a blue-collar working family, and it reflects attitudinal shifts that occur within people and families.
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Beauty
Family
Blue Collar
Parenthood
Within
Working
Occur
Reflects
Shifts
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I had a '56 Ford, and my first car was a '49 Chevy. I converted it to a stick and used to race with the other high school kids down along the river.
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Chevy
Converted
Ford
River
School Kids
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I really want to drive a Porsche GT1 car - also a McLaren, if I could fit. I want to do LeMans badly. I want to do Spa, a European series with World SportsCars.
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Car
Fit
If I Could
Porsche
Series
Drive
Badly
European
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They're just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don't think that's a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you'd have to do it. And I'd want to do it.
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Possibility
Sequels
Toy
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I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.
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Education
Encouragement
Food Stamps
Stamps
Vision
Welfare
Me
Anybody
Been
Out
Came
Gave
Help
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The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
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Awful
Compassion
Give And Take
Giving
Resentment
Thinking
Understanding
Awful Lot
Choose
Saves
Super
Takes
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Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.
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Armstrong
Done
Guy
Hero
Unbelievable
Heroes
Lance Armstrong
Overcame
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When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks - forget spring rates - is mind-boggling.
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Mind Boggling
Spring
Understanding
Gotta
Rates
Shocks
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What happened to society? I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision.
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Encouragement
Helping
Vision
Welfare
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I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and it had hope. And all of a sudden, I see that being dissolved, and I see, as a country, as a people, we are a republic. We are a democracy.
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Republic
Dissolved
Grow Up
Sudden
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Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.
Craig T. Nelson / Actor
Encouragement
Journey
Further
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Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.
Craig T. Nelson / Actor
Ignorant
Public Education
Teachers
First Things
Important Thing
Masses
Most Important Thing
Raise
Recipient
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I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we're told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don't have, and we know none of that means anything. Yet these other messages never stop coming.
Craig T. Nelson / Actor
Messages
Life Work Truth
Never Stop
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Sometimes you're encouraged, and other times disappointed. It's a matter of going in and precluding all that with, 'This is what I do, not who I am.' I need to be who I am in the process of doing what I do. I need to stay true to what it is I'm really here for. And that's the hardest thing, the biggest challenge.
Craig T. Nelson / Actor
Disappointed
Hardest Thing
Stay True
Biggest Challenge
Encouraged
The Hardest Thing
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