Wayne Rogers Quotes
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?'
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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If the people that love you are the people at your side on your last day, and there's not a soul in that room that has any bad words to say about you, well, I'd say Heaven awaits you, my friend.
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It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.
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Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.
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People will always want a free lunch.
