Branch Warren Quotes
I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.
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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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When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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I am a Westerner of Westerners!
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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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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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I don't drink coffee.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.
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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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When your family is with you, it is not the hardest part. The hardest part is not giving up! Sometimes you stop and see everything and you do not know if everything that you are doing is going to pay off. If you work hard, it is going to pay off. But, you will not know until it actually pays off! It is easy to say: "I am not doing this anymore. It's not working!" But, there is a time that you invested so long and so much, that giving up is not an option! You need to keep on going and believe that persistence definitely pays off.
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Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.
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I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.
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I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.
