William J. Mann Quotes
Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning, then abandons it for a while, then the character just talks right into the camera at the end. That structure is so unusual that you don't have any sense of what's going to happen next.
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The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.
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You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you're writing a typical song - that's maybe got 10 words per line.
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anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.
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Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.
