Iain Duncan Smith Quotes
I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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There's no business like show business.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
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The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
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I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
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My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into my convictions; the values and ideas of radical feminism that I started to articulate in my late teens feel more internalized or "second nature."
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I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.
