James Cromwell Quotes
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.
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Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
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Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.
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I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.
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My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.
