John Metcalf (John Metcalf) Quotes
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I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding for the United Nations dependent on ending blatant discrimination against Israel at the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
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I always thought of it like, 'What can my body do for me?' and not, 'How do I look?'
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I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.
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I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. They all have their own presence when they walk into a room, and I was excited to see what Tom Selleck's 'space' was going to be like.
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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.
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I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.
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Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.
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International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.
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Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.
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I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
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Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.
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Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and Fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.
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Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.
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Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.
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Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.
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One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.
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Usually the South Korean left is blamed for the public's lack of patriotism, but it is the right who made blood nationalism a state religion.
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Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.
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Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.
