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 don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
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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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Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other 'higher' ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.
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I get along great with all of my exes. That's really cool. That's a good sign.
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I really do try not to emote. I don't like seeing it on documentaries - it seems a bit unprofessional. I also need to be human being and be a kind of sympathetic presence for the contributors I'm with, so there' a line you have to walk.
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Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.
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This is the Free Market Revolution: It is the idea that economic freedom can flourish only in an America that celebrates selfishness—the individual’s pursuit of his rational, long-term self-interest—as a virtue.
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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.