Byron White Quotes
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.
Quotes to Explore
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I love cycling.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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I started out doing musicals.
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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
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And sometimes, ... it might be a guy throwing something you might not want to know about.
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When I'm playing, I play what I want, but I make sure that the crowd is going to love it at the same time. It's like a balancing act, a mix of two, a perfect circle... if you do it right.
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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.
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The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.
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We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.
