David Brock Quotes
I made the apologies that needed to be made, and so I didn't feel that Media Matters was a continuing form of saying I was sorry.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.
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There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
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Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.
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All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.
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We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
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On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young journalists, and the great feedback I got was that I would not or should not become an anchor because my eyelashes were too long and too distracting.
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Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
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Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.
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I'm constantly feeding my metabolism. But at the same time if I want to go one night and have a nice dinner then I won't sweat it the next day.
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One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.
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True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
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My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.
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Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.
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We'd love it if everybody had a Kickstarter project. I believe that everyone has some kind of creative project that they think about - whether it's something small they'd like to do over a weekend with friends, or it's the film they've always wanted to make, whatever.
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An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
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I made the apologies that needed to be made, and so I didn't feel that Media Matters was a continuing form of saying I was sorry.
