George Will Quotes
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.
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That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.
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It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established.
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It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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I'm a talk-show junkie. I'd rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what others have written.
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It's the primordial characters of the Star Wars. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the wise old warrior that Alec Guinness played. And it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale.
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Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.
