David Strathairn Quotes
I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.
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I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.
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A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus can be an idea, which will rapidly clothe itself in character and incident. 'Foreign Bodies' came about through the contemplation of the contrast between post-second world war America and Europe.
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I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.
