James Mattis Quotes
It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.
Quotes to Explore
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Everything is designed to help you sell out.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert … a man with a machine and inadequate culture … is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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Hy gododin catann hue Hud a lledrith mal wyddan Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri Varigal don Fincayra Dravia, dravia Fincayra (Talking trees and walking stones, Giants aare the island's bones. While this land our dance still knows, Varigal crowns Fincayra. Live long, live long Fincayra.
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Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.
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It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.
