Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
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Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. A lot of them turn up and they know everything about me. They say: 'You scored 346 goals' or 'You wore the No9 shirt for Liverpool.'
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
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I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
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Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.
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A big part of engaging kids in science is not getting the single, correct answer; it's being willing to work with students to discover the correct answer.
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Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.
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In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.
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The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
