Karl Rove Quotes
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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Beauty is not just physical.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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Five letters here just for everybody out there in Packer-land: R-E-L-A-X, Relax. We're going to be OK.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
