Stephen Ambrose Quotes
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.
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I went to my first college to play soccer.
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The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.
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I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.
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I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these really interesting things. I just felt really lucky to be a part of it even in a small way.
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In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
