Fay Wray Quotes
Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
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No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?
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Nickelback offered me a full-membership position. That's a great thing.
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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
