Bill Dedman Quotes
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I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Being evil is easy.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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No one person is an island.
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The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.
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I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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The purpose of the book is to see what happened to America; both to the people in it, and to its relationships with the rest of the world.
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America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.
