Dan Rather Quotes
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was other artists that was also on the label, so it was a big list and a long wait. I didn't want to wait that long, so I started branching off and doing my own thing.
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The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
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A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
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The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.
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One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
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I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.
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I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
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The journalist in me always loved relating and socialising and connecting with people, but there came a point where I needed to make a decision to stop that being my focus and really focus on acting - an audience are only really going to believe me as a character to an extent if they don't know me as Lily that well.
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I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
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To use tragedy to sow division is the hallmark of a despot.
