Myrna Loy (Myrna Adele Williams) Quotes
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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
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Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything.
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The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
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Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
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It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
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Max Askeli started this very good magazine The Reporter. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.
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Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.
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The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
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The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.
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We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.
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There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
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In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.
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For the gun work, I had more of the basic training from the previous [movie John Wick] and the weapon work I have done in the past. In the second movie [John Wick 2], it really went on into another level. I've done the three gun training, where you worked with the pistol, rifle and shotgun. So that all is in the film.
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When I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes. Then when I put it on the computer, a different part of my brain kicks in and I really evaluate every single word and sentence and make decisions. I like that step of polishing while I'm rewriting the entire thing, not just cutting and pasting. Really putting in every word and making a decision: is this something I can stand by?
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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
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Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.
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Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
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I got rid of all those reporters.
