Bret Stephens Quotes
I don't read 'Vanity Fair,' whose millionaire-fashionista-liberal shtick I find repellent.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.
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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.
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We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways, it's a pretty frightening experience. But normally, I do tend to walk against fear and hope that I'll be able to survive.
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What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
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I'd better make hay while the sun shines.
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The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.
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Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.
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That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.
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You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.
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When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.
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My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.
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It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team.
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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
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Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
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I don't read 'Vanity Fair,' whose millionaire-fashionista-liberal shtick I find repellent.
