Mary Matalin Quotes
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.
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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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We come from a very mixed family. We're a bunch of different races, my family. So it's very normal for us. I don't know why we're accepted. Are all of us accepted or just me?
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So-called reality TV, which dominates British channels, is destroying what made it cherishable to me and lots of others in the first place. I loved Alan Clarke, Ken Loach and Alan Bleasdale's work. In fact the first TV dramas I ever saw were 'Screen Twos' produced by David Thompson, who also produced a lot of Alan Clarke.
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Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
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He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.
