Eric Greitens Quotes
I am a conservative Republican, but I didn't start out that way. I was raised as a Democrat.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
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One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
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Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.
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If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
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My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.
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'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true.
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During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture.
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I love Dexter. I love Top Chef. I can't wait for it to come back. I love Friday Night Lights. I think TV is in a great place right now. It's definitely getting better and better. I think there is some of the most complete writing for women and female characters, they're done in television production and not really film production.
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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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I love the road trip. It was one of the original justifications to make the movie. So I want the movie to earn that road trip. And to me, that means calibrate it so that the fourth side of that double CD set is set up properly and it all makes sense.
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Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
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If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.
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The blame game is a derogatory term for accountability and we've had failures on the part of government and our leaders at the local level, at the state level and at the presidential level.
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I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
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We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.
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I am a conservative Republican, but I didn't start out that way. I was raised as a Democrat.
