Oliver North Quotes
My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
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When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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Drugs scared me.
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For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
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A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.
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I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
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I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
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Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.
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My wife and I started a breeding program where we breed American quarter horses.
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The thing about stories is that they almost always find their way onto the page, even if it takes a while.
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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
