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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I told him he had to face these things in life . . . to make a man of himself.
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I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater. He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially - shortest synopsis ever, like I'm the Cablevision guide button - it's the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven. It's by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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I think comics should test people, I think it's our job to go too far. That way we know as a society what too far is. Where else are you going to hear it?
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
