Douglas Brinkley Quotes
Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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Strong families are vital to strong societies.
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You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.
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If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
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My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.
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We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
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Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.
