Bill Clegg Quotes
Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
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Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.
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One of our targets as a country is to now work very closely with the Commonwealth countries - they could become a very big market for us.
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Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.
