Bart Yates (Noah Bly) Quotes
The librarian is a caricature of librarian - short white hair, horn-rimmed glasses, a bosom you could hide Christmas presents under and a New England-tight-ass face that looks like she hasn's taken a shit since her family came over on the Mayflower.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.
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It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.
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Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
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If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.
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My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.
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I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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The librarian is a caricature of librarian - short white hair, horn-rimmed glasses, a bosom you could hide Christmas presents under and a New England-tight-ass face that looks like she hasn's taken a shit since her family came over on the Mayflower.
