Jim Lehrer Quotes
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
Quotes to Explore
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I will keep working hard!
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.
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Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
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My ambition is to get better as an actor.
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I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
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If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
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I don't like David Blaine, he is the ultimate git wizard.
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The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.
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I don't get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine with me - I'm a novelist.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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When you spend seven years of your life working on something that you're really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.
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I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
