John Lothrop Motley Quotes
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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It's good when you're getting points - you're obviously feeling confident.
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
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Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.
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I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.
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It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.
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You have to develop a broad range of projects. One thing we've seen with 'This Is Us' is that people want to escape a little bit into the lives of others with beautiful emotional storylines where a country that needs a good cry can have one without seeming crazy. So I would say my real takeaway is that we should all be pushing for extreme emotion.
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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.
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The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
