Adam Clymer Quotes
Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.
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I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
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I have to be at work every day at six in the morning and then cover premieres and parties that go late into the night, so a 12-hour workday is the norm.
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I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
