Gerry Spence Quotes
A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.
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Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
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You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.
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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
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A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.
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The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.
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I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.
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Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.
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I want to see cancer cured in my lifetime. It might be.
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Bottom line: If you can't spare some time to give your employees the chance to wow you, you'll never get the best from them.
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If we follow the white man, we're going to drown with the white man.
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Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.
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War is the health of the State and it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution.
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As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.
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Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.
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A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.
