William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I try to stay focused.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
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I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.
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We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.
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As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
