Nigel Kneale Quotes
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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I am not honest.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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I just can't read music.
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
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CIU is not something to just tolerate. It's important to find an allergist or dermatologist who can work with you to help manage your condition.
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The labor movement is a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves...
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The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg - eight ninths below the water line, one ninth above.
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Together we are bigger than the sum of our parts.
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Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
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Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.
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Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.
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Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.
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Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.
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People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.
