Denis Norden Quotes
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
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saddened to hear the passing of a true artistic master, H.R. Giger. Ur legacy will live on through ur innovative & stimulating originality
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We should aim for peaceful coexistence at least and transcultural synergy at best.
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I think we're going to have to take a hard look about what more we can do to prevent this kind of lone wolf attack.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.
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Everyone who appears in a scene gets paid.
