Dan Webster Quotes
It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.
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Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.
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It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.
