Tate Donovan Quotes
I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
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Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
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Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.
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In most homes, from what I know of them, even though the woman's place in that particular home might be in the home, still, she is queen of her house. So I like exploring the many different incarnations of women in that country, actually. You find quite a range of these women in this book - each one of them embodies a completely different personality type. And how can you write a book that's only full of men, anyway? I mean, half the population of this world is women.
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I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.
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When I met Jo Wilder, I fell crazy in love and never thought about homosexuality. And I thought, 'Well, this is what I'm supposed to be doing. This is life.'
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
