Elliott Abrams Quotes
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I've never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have 'Animal Kingdom.' There's not a single bad review that I've read of it yet; all through Sundance, all it got was high praise.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.
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I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to.
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American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
