Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.
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I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.
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Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
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Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such monsters, however, have existed; and the heart almost bleeds at the recital of the cruel acts such have been guilty of; it teaches us, however, what human nature is when left to itself; not only treacherous, but desperately wicked.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.
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Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
