James Reston Quotes
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Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
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I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.
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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
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I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.
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I dubbed for 'Nannaku Prematho' because in that film, I was doing a London-based character, and even if some mistake happens with pronunciation, people would excuse it.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
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Hark! to the hurried question of despair: 'Where is my child?'-an echo answers, 'Where?'
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And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
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The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist.
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I don't know what flirting is, really. Sometimes in women, friendliness comes across as flirting. That is not what it is.
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One of the most amazing things about my job is that I have arguably, maybe not even arguably - definitively - the best boss on the planet. Shonda Rhimes is the best.
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I really like 'ICO' and 'Shadow of the Colossus.'
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Can you explore real issues as a fake character? Yes - it's called acting. Or fiction. But acting is not a method of engaging with the actual world, just as pretending to know what a character might eat does not a novel make - much less make that make-believe real.
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I don't make music to make money. I make music because that's what I like to do. You would think, "Yeah, of course, that's what an artist does," but there ain't too many artists around anymore. I see a lot of people who, if they thought they wouldn't profit, would find an easier hustle. It's a racket now, like everything else, but we're in a capitalistic country - everything's a racket. Take what you can. I think the difference between that line of thinking and me is obvious.
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When you go into a fight saying you're probably going to lose, you're probably going to lose.
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The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.
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I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you really want. But the money is fabulous, too.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
