James Russell Lowell Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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You took care of your horse, and your horse took care of you.
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Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.
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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
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Writing a story starts out as a puzzle in your mind, of "What is it I'm fantasizing about right now that makes me think this is going to be worth years of work?" And you just keep pushing and trying to figure it out, and once you've hit on these resonances... Then as a screenwriter, it can be dangerous if you get too hooked on just finding things that resonate with each other, because then you risk getting into stuff that's too neat, and becomes stifled as storytelling. But you do feel like you're on the right track when you start to have a sense of what goes with what.
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I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
