Evan Thomas Quotes
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
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I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
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Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
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I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.
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'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
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I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.
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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.
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I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.
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I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.
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I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.
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Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.
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I always try to make each character my own.
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My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that.
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I knew it couldn't get any worse. You've just got to trust your stuff.
