Jim Lehrer Quotes
I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
Quotes to Explore
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It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
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I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.
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I can believe in myself, and I feel like I'm such a strong and talented designer.
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Believe me, I don't like being photographed. I don't like myself in pictures. Actually, I do sometimes.
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Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
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There are certain ways you have to delude yourself. Self-delusion is important, for instance in family life. You know what I mean? If you're in love with your wife you have to go in there with blind faith. You have to support everything. And with your kids, you have to believe that you're doing something that has higher purpose; even though you don't have any evidence that that's the way it's going to turn out.
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Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we adults don't usually practice enough solitude—because we are always 'doing' things—we often neglect to teach our boys to find solitude.
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I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
