Edmund Morris Quotes
Do not all these things interest you? Isn’t it a fine thing to be alive when so many great things are happening?
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.
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If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.
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I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
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I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.
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Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.
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How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.
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I ate two waffles, a banana and cereal with blueberries. And that whas between my two breakfasts.
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John Kerry and the other Democratic leaders are on the wrong side of history, as they were during the Reagan presidency. If they had won the day, and Reagan had failed, the Soviet Union would still exist, as would all the harm and suffering it unleashed, and American security would be far weaker as a result. And if they win this election thanks to a promise to undo the Reagan-Bush Doctrine, those cheering loudest will be the most evil-loving among us.
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How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known?
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Never mind what the 'people' think of you! They may overestimate or underestimate you! Until they discover your real worth, your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. You can succeed if nobody else believes it; but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.
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In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.
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Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.
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I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.
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Do not all these things interest you? Isn’t it a fine thing to be alive when so many great things are happening?
