Richard Rhodes Quotes
Although every writer dreams of getting it right on the first pass, very few succeed.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.
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I'm going for something very raw and organic.
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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TV has changed so much, from the fact that there are so many channels available now to spoilers. There were no blogs when I was on Buffy. There were no weekly magazines, aside from People. Now, to be able keep your secrets for your show is so hard.
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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
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Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
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I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.
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I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
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Although every writer dreams of getting it right on the first pass, very few succeed.
