Elliott Abrams Quotes
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
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It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.
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Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.
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Some say let's not give them too much power. But we need power to do the things we believe in and change Israeli politics. In coalition talks, we don't want to have to compromise on what we believe in.
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Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.
