Bill Raftery Quotes
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having no idea what came before. They didn't know about the riots at Stonewall, the vice squad, the raids.
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I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
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The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
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I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.
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I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
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I've got nothing to complain about. I have to enjoy and be grateful. Lots of people would like to be in my shoes.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
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Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.
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I've always thought young.
