Ernest Istook Quotes
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.
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After Notre Dame, what is there?
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I would rather see a game where you play to feel happier and to make other people like you and to make the people you care about happy.
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What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.
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I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.
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I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
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I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.
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The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to.
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There have been many moments over the last year when I thought it was all over.
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My dad was a really funny, really talented guy who had a great success in a limited audience. But from him, I learned that he always felt the audience was entitled to 150 per cent. If he was performing at an event, he'd keep playing until the last person had finished dancing.
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If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
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I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom.
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The meaning of my total existence involves knowing the possibilities of my future as well as my past, where I'm going as well as where I've been.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
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Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
