David H. Koch Quotes
When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.
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Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.
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We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the same thing on an underslept brain, which means you end up having to stay awake longer. So goes the vicious cycle.
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The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.
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Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.
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When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.
