Diedrich Bader Quotes
When I was a kid and we first moved to the states I used to watch 'Batman' all the time - with Adam West. I finally got to work with him years ago, and I totally geeked out.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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Training camp is a grind, and it truly is all about embracing that grind and coming out here and forgetting about the heat and working to get better every single day.
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I think that anyone who likes writing views 'The New Yorker' as the, you know, pinnacle of the publishing world. If you get 50 words published in 'The New Yorker,' it's more important than 50 articles in other places. So, would I love to one day write for them? I guess. But that's not my sole ambition.
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And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.
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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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When I was a kid and we first moved to the states I used to watch 'Batman' all the time - with Adam West. I finally got to work with him years ago, and I totally geeked out.
