Brooke Astor Quotes
I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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I would say that it's a lot easier, especially if you have a bit of an attention deficit disorder, to be on a movie because you can give it your all, and kill yourself for however many months, and then let it go.
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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
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I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I'm just a guy up on a hill writing.
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If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.
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I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city.
