Rebecca De Mornay Quotes
I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.
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In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.
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The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
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The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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You really find out who your friends are and who you can trust. That definitely toughens you.
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Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.
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You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.
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Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
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It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
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I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.
