Karl Rove Quotes

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

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• Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
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• Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

  

  Jackie Collins
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• I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

  

  Yelawolf
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• The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

  

  Felix Dennis
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• The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.

  

  Lara Giddings
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• I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.

  

  Sam Simon
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• Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Business
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• There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

  

  Patrick Wilson
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• Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

  

  Fanny Kemble
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• Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.

  

  Laura Dern
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• I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

  

  Uta Hagen
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• Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

  

  Ted Sarandos
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• I don't want my children to ever think that food is taboo.

  

  Karen Elson
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• Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees.

  

  Kenneth Rexroth
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• I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Internet

• Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

  

  Esther Freud
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• My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.

  

  Chris Matthews
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• The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

  

  Karl Rove
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  • Vision
  • Politics