Sarah Vowell Quotes
I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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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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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went through the ice, one of my sled dogs saw me go under, and she got the rest of the team, and they pulled me out of 12 feet of water. I think that dogs offer the only form of unconditional love that's available to humans.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
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The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.
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I think of the Jens Lekman in the songs as a completely different person who's stealing my stories.
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I have worked hard in my career, but I have been lucky as well.
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Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.
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For two thousand years, Jesus has revenged himself on us for not having died on a sofa.
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No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.
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I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
