Dean Acheson Quotes
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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I've been very lucky.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
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The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
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I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.
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I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.
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I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
