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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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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 like that best as I am so hairy.
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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been.
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Liberalism was failing. If I'd been German and not a Jew, I could see I might have become a Nazi, a German nationalist. I could see how they'd become passionate about saving the nation. It was a time when you didn't believe there was a future unless the world was fundamentally transformed.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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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.
