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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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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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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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
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It's a torturous time when you learn almost everything you really have to know about survival. The important thing to remember when you are living through it, however, is that you have absolutely no idea quite how smart and strong and beautiful the pain will make you. So go forth and suffer...you'll rule the world.
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If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
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The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.
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We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.
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It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.
