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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The first movie I ever cried at was when I was 10 years old and saw 'The Notebook' in theaters. I was like, 'Whoa, so weird. Crying at a movie? I'm not supposed to do that. So weird.' I didn't know that art could make you do that.
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Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of smoldering cities so gray and so vulgar, as not to be satisfied with their own negativity, but needing to touch all the living as well.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.
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As soon as 'Hide Away' came out, it was like everyone knew who I was, and I started getting all this attention. It was hard to get used to at first. I just remember that I suddenly couldn't walk down the hallways without hearing a classmate or teacher playing it - it was unreal!
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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.
