Bud Adams Quotes
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
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Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.
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I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
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Good news from France, where the man picked by Nicolas Sarkozy as his foreign minister is not the execrable Hubert Védrine, but Bernard Kouchner - a socialist who supports Israel and the invasion of Iraq.
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Schooling is so important.
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Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].
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Most of what we see are white people.
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I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.
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He has some more things to learn, but he'll learn them...
