Tom Rachman Quotes
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
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It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.
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For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.
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I was surprised that when you get into electoral politics how scientific the analysis was in the electorate. You can identify on a state-by-state or district-by-district basis fundamental building blocks that behave in different ways. I was impressed in general with the sophistication of polling.
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The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life.
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Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.
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Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.
