James A. Leach Quotes
When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting... It can be sometimes that delineated.
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I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.
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Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
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But this country is a great country and will always rebound.
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When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.
