Richard Jewell Quotes
While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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I don't want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. This is a movie, this is your role, and you have to do it. Some people have to strive so hard to reach where they have and want to.
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Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
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If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic.
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Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.
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When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
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Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it.
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Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
