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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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.
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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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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
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When the fire is over, always, in the ashes, our opportunities to repair, to move forward without vengeance being required - that's kind of the way us humans seem to live. We make massive mistakes. We do stupid things. We do things to survive. And then there's an opportunity to learn from them and move forward with grace. And forgiveness and that gracefulness are very connected.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .
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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.
