Joe Biden Quotes
I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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I only drive in movies. I know that's very weird to hear for an American. I have a weird relationship with it. I know how to drive, but I never went to take the test.
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I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate both characters - he probably felt Leigh wasn't famous enough and he realized Leigh Bowery and I were associated.
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I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
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I try and be truthful.
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
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I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.
