Bob Woodward Quotes
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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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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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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I just want to get back to the point where America has the best of everything.
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I've got loads of ideas, but I need some structure in my life. I need a mission.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.
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You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
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I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.
