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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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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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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As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.
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I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.
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American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
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I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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People seem to have an impressive capacity to change themselves if you believe in them, if you tell them they can and give them some help in doing so.
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I do think, you know, you don't have to have 30 billion, but you have a certain level of freedom.
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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.
