William Kristol Quotes
If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park, Wallyworld, at the end of 'Vacation.' The last 20 minutes of the film was entirely different - and bombed so badly that the audience just stopped cold.
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I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.
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I always thought when I got older that I'd be jealous of my children but I'm not. It's the opposite. I love seeing their possibilities. Nothing makes me as happy as sitting at dinner with loved ones, having a glass of wine with a meal that I've cooked. What could be better?
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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The novel 'World War Z' is told from the perspectives of so many people - speaking to the narrator - that there's no way a movie could capture all of them. Still, the idea of turning a zombie pandemic into a war story is fascinating and could have translated easily to film.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world.
