Newell Dwight Hillis Quotes
Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.
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Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.
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The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
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In a new interview, Newt Gingrich says he cheated on two of his wives because he was too consumed with love for his country. Yeah, apparently he misunderstood the phrase, 'Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.'
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I never said I was a genius.
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Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves.
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Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.
