Frederick Wiseman Quotes
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV is that when you think 'Christian,' you think 'goody two shoes' - they have to look a certain way and do certain things - and it's just not true.
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I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning - you know, 'beginning, middle and end.'
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If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.
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People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don't want it to be limited.
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I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life.
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My approach every game is to try to keep the ball down and get ground ball outs.
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The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.
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There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn't make any difference. It's the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. ... The bumper sticker I'm going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, 'We're not perfect, but they're nuts.'
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I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.
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I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.
