Stewart Udall (Stewart Lee Udall) Quotes
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
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There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.
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The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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Mercenary is whoever thinks less of his work than of the money he receives for doing it; and social conditions which impose tasks that make this inevitable are barbarous.
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I keep saying, the older I get, the younger my audience gets. Because 'Wicked' and 'Rent' and 'Glee,' each one was a young audience, so it's a great thing to have, so then you know that as they get older and have kids, they'll maybe still buy tickets to my shows when I'm 80 and in Vegas!
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I don't even read positive reviews unless they are absolutely certified by eight different people to not contain one thing that could upset me.
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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
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So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
