Dana Milbank Quotes
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
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It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
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I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
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I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not in the numbers, I don't care how strategic it is; it doesn't play out.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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If I could play the ukulele like Zooey Deschanel, I would find my own personal M. Ward, and we would do a side album; but I don't, you know?
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It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.
