Ehren Watada Quotes
I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression. My oath of office is to protect and defend America's laws and its people. By refusing unlawful orders for an illegal war, I fulfill that oath today.
Quotes to Explore
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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I trust myself. You need that to survive.
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Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
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My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.
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I like to joke that you usually write more books before death than after death, so that's why I'm doing it. But really, I remain engaged with ideas. There are so many things happening that turn me on and I just want to examine them.
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New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
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I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.
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Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.
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I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression. My oath of office is to protect and defend America's laws and its people. By refusing unlawful orders for an illegal war, I fulfill that oath today.
