Robert Wilkie Quotes
My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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No one is going to remember a second-place team.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
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Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels, I love comics, movies, TV. If it's a good story, I'm hooked.
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In Europe, it is not so unusual for directors to move between opera, theatre, and film, and I have at least three girlfriends I can think of who have directed in all three genres.
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Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.
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I am just an actor - all I do is I memorise someone else's words and tart around.
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It takes a lot of guts to come out to your friends and family. For most gay people, coming out is the most traumatic experience in their life because of the worry about the backlash: 'What's going to happen? Are my parents going to accept me? Are my friends going to accept me? Are my sisters and brothers going to accept me?'
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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I grew up in a family that nearly lost everything, but I ended up in the United States Senate because I grew up in an America that invested in kids like me and built a real future for us.
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My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.
