Donald E. Westlake Quotes
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.
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It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.
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When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.
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I thought so at first, but there is reason to believe that he is still alive. But that in itself does not constitute a problem.
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Obviously, you're trying to peel through 20 centuries of theology, speculations, church doctrine and storytelling. I'm trying to get back to the absolute basic story of who was Jesus, what did he say, what was he teaching, and what did he do.
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In the story of Jesus I found ... a center for my being. Behind the supernatural framework of the first century, behind the language of myth, magic, and superstition, I discovered a life I wanted to know; a life that possessed a power I wanted to possess; a freedom, a wholeness for which I had yearned for years.
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What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.'
