Studs Terkel Quotes
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
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Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
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I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'
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Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
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I'm not a millionaire but I'm very comfortable doing what I do, and I'm more productive now than I was in my mid-20s. It's all down to functionality eventually. If you're functional it doesn't matter if you're mad.
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The first time we ever used the Dixie flag for our backdrop was actually when we went over to Europe in 1970. It looked good, so we all liked it. We never meant any racial things by it.
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I'm looking for human stories to do.
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Music is so important in a human life. It finds a space inside us that nothing else touches.
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Stuff just comes out all the time, sometimes when I sing live it really comes alive and I sort of... I write songs and then almost... not forget about it, but live it really comes out and I suddenly realise what I've written. I don't know where it all comes from.
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As the governor of the state of Arizona, I took an oath to uphold the laws and to protect the people of Arizona. And I'm going to be relentless in it. I'm going to do what is right.
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I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.
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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
