Sean Duffy Quotes
As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.
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The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
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Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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I'm very close to my family.
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I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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The old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.
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As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.
