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Quotes By Craig T. Nelson

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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CarScienceForget

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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EducationFoodHope

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.

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LifeTruthWork

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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HopeDemocracy Grow

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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CarDrive Fit

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.

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EducationFamilyGreat

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.

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Help Itself Somebody

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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Living Takes Three

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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BeautyFamilyWithin

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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Anymore Blame Wrong

If people are going to watch TV, let’s give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

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Actual TV Watch

I really wanted to do ‘Modern Family,’ and I really liked the script, and I liked the people.

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FamilyLiked Modern

I don’t want to be told what’s for my good.

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Good

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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Story Sure Toy

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for ‘The District’ and ‘CSI: NY.’

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Son Writer Wrote
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