James Douglas Quotes
I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.
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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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I love my brother. I miss my brother.
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
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My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
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I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
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I love a burger and fries, but it's not what I crave. I love to eat healthily.
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Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.
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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the world's biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it's much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I'm pretty sure the agency's divorce rate is rather high.
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On the windowpanes came rattling fistfuls of shot, and the snow whirled and sifted beneath ill-fitting doors, slid in the cracks of windowsills and searched in a frenzy for any refuge against the fury of the wind.
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And we call upon others to join us on the right side of history - for while small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.
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The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it.
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All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
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An overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.
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You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.
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All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
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I love Meryl Streep.
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I start writing songs first as an entertainer, and I like funny stories that wrap up with dignity.
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Writers need to be tough. This is not for the weak of will. And we have to realize that, yeah, it's never good enough. It's not like fixing a car where it's precise and we know what the end result will be definitively.
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I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.
