Bill Kristol Quotes
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.
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At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
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The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
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I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
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I'm not a director who feels I should be in your face all the time. I really want you to watch the actors and listen to the play.
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I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
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I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.
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Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.
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Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really a writer at all, and that is a voice, a distinct and identifiable voice. This is really not the same thing as a style; a style can be emulated, a voice cannot, and the witty, rueful, elegaic voice gives his work its bright authenticity.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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So, take what's inside you and make big, bold choices and for those who can't speak for themselves, use bold voices and make friends and love well, bring art to this place and make the world better for the whole human race.
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It's a miracle that any job comes together.
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When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.
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Self-government is an experiment. It could still fail.
