Rick Perlstein Quotes
There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.
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My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.
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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
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The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
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You fall for who the chemistry is with.
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I quit 'Qubool Hai' at the right time. When 'Alone' was offered to me, I was learning production and direction. I don't think not being seen on TV for more than a year will affect my popularity or 'Alone.'
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My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.
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I'm a sneakerhead. I probably have a couple hundred pair of shoes. I got all sorts of shoes.
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I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.
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If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.
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My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a good tale or no one is going to listen. You have to make it entertaining and interesting. That's how I learned to tell stories.
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With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.
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There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.