Al Swearengen Quotes
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I would love to do some theater.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.
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The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
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I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.
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Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.
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I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.
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Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.
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The biggest thing I've learned is that it's not about me. All of the things that I do have to be about bringing service to the world and helping people shift their perception.
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Pain or damage don't end the world.
