Dana Priest Quotes
My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
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I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.
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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
