David Herbert Donald Quotes
And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
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I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
