John Edwards Quotes
If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.
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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.
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When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.
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I can live without football. There are more important things in life.
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Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.
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When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.
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I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
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If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
