Hedda Hopper Quotes
Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.
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I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves.
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I like a little bit of a rough look because it's sexy. But when a man has a rough look, and he goes and gets a cleanup, then it's very sexy as well.
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Government is not show business.
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In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.
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I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.
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Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
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I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.
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To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.
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Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.
