A. J. Liebling Quotes
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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I love red or deep purple lips for events.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I am nearly the worst role model for a healthy person. To me, a healthy person is someone in balance. Sometimes you eat hamburgers, sometimes salad; sometimes you move, sometimes you don't. I eat more healthily than unhealthily, but I do sometimes eat unhealthy food.
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I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
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Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.
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If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.
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We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
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Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
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Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
