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.
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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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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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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 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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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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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
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I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
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The philosophy of friendship has definitely paid off, because after all the highs and lows we’re still sticking together and we haven’t lost the passion for what we’re doing. In the Seventies, there were few changes, then we had this line-up with Herman Rarebell and Francis Buchholz for almost twenty years.
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Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.
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It's hard being a girl. There are a lot of body image issues that come up and I think the best thing we can do for our kids is lead by example.
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I'm pretty confident, I guess I would say.
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I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.
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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.
