John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.
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Tant pis and tant mieux, being two of the great hinges in French conversation, a stranger would do well to set himself right in the use of them before he gets to Paris.
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Judd Apatow, together with me and Lena, we're all the showrunners of 'Girls.'
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The windows of my soul I throwWide open to the sun.
