Joe Manchin Quotes
Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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I'm one of the regulars. I play this doctor, Dr. Andrew Brown, going through some marriage problems.
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The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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I still believe in love. I believe in marriage.
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What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.
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Big stories need human stakes.
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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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She can only believe I am serious in her own fashion of being serious: as an antic sort of seriousness, which is not seriousness at all but despair masquerading as seriousness.
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I like being in a collaborative and respectful environment. When you're in an environment spearheaded by ego and fear, it's the death of creativity.
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In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.
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I feel that when you take the responsibility to host something, it is your job to make sure that all your guests are taken care of equally.
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Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.
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'SNL' is our main priority because that was our first big break.
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Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.
