John Ford Quotes
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.
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And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
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Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.
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Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.
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When you've dealt with real-life issues, dealing with business issues is not that hard.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
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It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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You have to be professional and think about the future.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
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How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
