Franklin Pierce Adams Quotes
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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That's the beautiful thing about mixed martial arts - and I'll tell people that - you have to think outside of the box.
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I knew that if I could put a table in a room with not much light and a couple of chairs, I could have a real conversation. And I know that people... like to eavesdrop on a conversation.
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I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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I knew my body could take the battle of everyday training and take the battle of falls and bending in ways that bodies really shouldn't bend.
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What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
