Charles Macomb Flandrau Quotes
Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
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I have had to learn about saying no.
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If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.
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Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
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Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus.
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Alexander North Whitehead is supposed to have said of Bertrand Russell: 'Bertie thinks me muddleheaded and I think Bertie simple-minded.'
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‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’
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It took you momma nine months to make it, but it only took that nigga thirty minutes to take it.
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
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Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.
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Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished.
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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth....
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation.
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It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.
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Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.
