Ned Colletti Quotes
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
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You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.
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I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.
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I knew of all of them. I didn't know any of them.
