Oliver DeMille Quotes
It is time to stop talking so much about what kind of leaders we want, to give less lip service to what Washington or Wall Street or Hollywood should do, and to act a lot more like citizens who actually deserve freedom.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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I sleep better on the road than I do at home. I'm used to sleeping in a million different hotels. I'm not home very often, so when I get home, I have things I want to do.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
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One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.
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Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.
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It is time to stop talking so much about what kind of leaders we want, to give less lip service to what Washington or Wall Street or Hollywood should do, and to act a lot more like citizens who actually deserve freedom.
