Bill Keller Quotes
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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I never read the tabloids.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who's a crackhead? That - I was scared. I mean, it was scary. But part of that's because it was so personal and real to me.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.
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The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.
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There have been times where you do the red carpet in a certain shoe, and you go into the bathroom, you take that shoe off, you put the other shoe on from your purse, and then you walk around for the rest of the night.
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'Every apostle or disciple,' Mrs. Clarke says, 'as much as their running to follow they're savior-they're running just as hard to escape something else.'
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Thinking every minutes about Australia. Praying for rain and some political changes. Byron Bay, Sydney, Melbourne, and Earth Frequency Festival, let’s do this!!! I’ll donate all the benefits of this tour to trustful fundraisers.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
