When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.


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Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival.
DEAN ORNISH
When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it's easier to make ...
DEAN ORNISH
Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after...
HOWARD DEAN
I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by ho...
DEAN KAMEN
Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in...
DEAN ORNISH
Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide ...
DEAN ORNISH
Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science...
DEAN KAMEN
I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebo...
DEAN KAMEN
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and co...
DEAN KAMEN
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answer...
DEAN KAMEN
Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it ou...
DEAN KAMEN
We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have.
DEAN KAMEN
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and fin...
DEAN KAMEN
I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parent...
DEAN KAMEN
Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what tech...
DEAN KAMEN
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
DEAN KAMEN
I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of...
DEAN KAMEN
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way...
DEAN KAMEN
Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision,...
DEAN KAMEN
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life...
DEAN KAMEN
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
DEAN KAMEN
More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing...
DEAN KAMEN
I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting tim...
DEAN KAMEN
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistake...
DEAN KAMEN
I'm a human entropy producer.
DEAN KAMEN
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes m...
DEAN KAMEN
If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I t...
DEAN KAMEN
You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not real...
DEAN KAMEN
Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
DEAN KAMEN
Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.
JIMMY DEAN