Dallas Roberts Quotes
I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest payday - that's what I want.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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Larry poured himself a coffee. 'I hate when they come in here with computers. They sit forever at their tables, and they don't talk to nobody, it's like having a place full of statues or zombies.'
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After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
